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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but when nearly everyone uses "populism" to refer to a type of rhetoric, then that becomes the reality, no? Anyway, enough back and forth on this. keep up the splendid work at TNR!
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Agree, in terms of usage the broad meaning of populism has won. But I'm enough of a historian to regret the loss of the earlier, more focused, usage.
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