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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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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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Well the pope was a constant such figure in Europe. And specific royals (eg Catherine Medici, Marie Antoinette). in the US LBJ had that role towards the end of term (eg _Hair_)