I feel like I'm being trolled here. Hofstadter was wrong about most things and especially wrong, in a dangerous way, about populism.https://twitter.com/jonathanchait/status/953113526456942592 …
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well, I wrote a whole book arguing that populism is a promiscuous language which different pols and political forces adapt to their own purposes: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100195280 … It's not an ideology like socialism, liberalism, or conservatism
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I know! I've read Populist Persuasion -- several times in fact. I think it's fair to say there is populist rhetoric, but tension between that rhetoric & reality worth emphasizing.
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