1. Responding to a recent piece I did on Trump, both @notjessewalker & @yeselson asked me if I acknowledged existence of rightwing populism
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Replying to @HeerJeet
1. Short answer: yes, there is such a thing as right-wing populism but Trump doesn't fit the mould.
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2. Perhaps useful to start by making distinction between populism and "Rich People's Movements" (see here: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/rich-peoples-movements-9780199928996?cc=ca&lang=en& …)
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3. To me, the prime examples of right wing populism in USA are 1) 1920s KKK 2) Father Coughlin in 1930s 3) George Wallace in 1960s
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4. What unites KKK/Coughlin/Wallace is a) racism b) mass politics from below c) challenge to established wealth & social system
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5. "Rich People's Movements" would include John Birch Society, 1970s tax revolt, Tea Party, and (I'd argue) Trump.
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@HeerJeet Trump seems to be mobilizing the MARs that Donald Warren wrote about—successors to the Wallace/Southie/WestVa crowd of the '70s.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@HeerJeet That doesn't make Trump a populist, but it does mean he's trying to exploit a populist space, if that distinction makes sense.3 replies 0 retweets 1 like
@notjessewalker It does seem to me that Trump does owe something to the Tea Party, which is a RPM. But maybe with a fusion of MARs
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