In the 19th C American agrarian populism you see remarkably little of that. There’s a bit of rhetoric in the “Silver fusion” era of the 90’s about Eastern banks but the few instances of violence were not from populists but segregationist Southern Democrats w/ a populist style
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Namely Tom Watson and “Pitchfork Ben” Tillman and later post-populist race baiters. Of actual populists (People’s Party, Farmer’s Alliance, Agricultural Wheel, the Grange) only Ignatius Donnelly used othering language references that I know of
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Tons. It's Putin's "supporters" long-time mantra
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It's interesting how, unlike Oceana's two minutes hate, the MAGAs keep shifting who "Her" is. They're fairly consistent at targeting women though.
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It is more likely linked to the rise of Amazon Prime.
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100 years ago, Socialist Party candidate Eugene Debs actually was locked up during the campaign. He got 3.4% of popular vote.
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Bolsonaro and his supporters have done this a lot. There have been other outgroup members (Soros, the Rothschilds) on which populist movements have focused, but I'm not sure the "specific fantasy" factor is/was present in these cases.
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I know you don’t like it, but Girard talks plenty about the scapegoat in mimetic theory
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The generic idea of a scapegoat is useful enough. Just skeptical of overwrought philosophizing.
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