Are you suggesting that there was significant Southern white popular resistance to Jim Crow laws? That Jim Crow passed DESPITE Southern white people largely being against it?
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And *I* will enjoy Jeet's 14-tweet walkback of that article three days after, because "Clearly you all misunderstood me. When I said 'populism...'"
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Jeet, before you write that article, I’d suggest reading this book if you haven’t already. Populism isn’t just being “for the people”, it involves declaring a subset of the people as the Real People and those outside that subset as an Other to be defeated.https://www.amazon.com/What-Populism-Jan-Werner-Müller/dp/0812248988 …
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And that Othering generally involves race, religion or class, depending on the sort of populism. But it certainly isn’t just someone saying they are for the people not the powerful.
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So it doesn’t matter what actual philosophy a candidate has as long as their aim is to stick it to The Man?
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I find it confusing that Sanders was brought into this discussion while Warren was left out. Surely her campaign was similarly (if not as thoroughly) “populist” as Sanders’? People wrote a ton about Warren’s populism as the primary was happening!
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It's interesting that you continue to cite Kazin as foundational in your thinking, given Kazin acknowledges right-wing populism in American history and also situates Trump as a modern populist w/in this history. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2016-10-06/trump-and-american-populism …pic.twitter.com/hV3rLHwYp3
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It would of course be fine to disagree w/ Kazin (as I said, many disagree about the precise definitions of populism!), but it's odd to continue to name drop him as supporting your view when his own work on the phenomena involves a more complex understanding than you've offered.
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You’re arguing “you’ve always been pro-populist” but have done nothing to define what you deem populist. As such you’re leaving readers guessing at your argument other than it’s dismissive nature. I’m left to think you see it like pornography, ‘you know it when you see it.’
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