#Populist

It definitely matters that the Communist Party rules China instead of some other group, but not as much--or for the right reasons--as China hawks assert.  /1 A Populist, militarist regime
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Analysis time. Here are the official results for the GOP Kansas Senate Primary, side by side with the results if Kobach and Hamilton (the two most Right-Wing candidates) had their
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Because I'm a masochist, I will live-tweet Anderson Cooper's interview with Caitlyn Jenner this evening, so that you don't have to watch it. Follow along here. Part of the
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This Day in Labor History: April 30, 1894. Coxey’s Army, a rag-tag group of unemployed Americans, marched into Washington, D.C., demanding federal jobs for the unemployed. The cops had Coxey
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Will Covid-19 kill off the populist radical right? By means of data from @pollofpolls_EU and #ThePopuList I examined how 31 PRR parties have fared in the polls in the last
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1. There's an interesting vote coming up soon that is going to scramble partisan lines. It's on the World Trade Organization, the global super court that encourages offshoring, harms the
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I will do a couple election takes: 1. The Biden team understood its electorate better than anybody and, with the support of allies, executed a very good campaign strategy. 2.
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Some are understandably consumed with the court-packing issue right now. I'm much more interested in DC and Puerto Rican statehood. And specifically, the question of whether it is "rank politics"
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"Trump failed because he picked bad people" is an insufficient explanation. In truth, he failed because his so-called populist project was a lie. He never wanted to drain the swamp,
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A person asked the question, "Why are people so hostile towards President Donald Trump?"Chris O'Leary: Before you pass my answer off as “Another Liberal Snowflake” consider that: 1/several 1.) I'm
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I just finished a long day at work & was fasting,so I am tired & don’t have the energy for a long twitter brouhaha with AfriForum’s supporters. I am bemused
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America has no Caesar, Pompey, or Crassus because it must first have the Clodius Pulcher-esque androgynous flamboyant thug-politician who could forcefully cultivate a harem of catamites and dress effeminately in
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A perfect example of how this guy is completely unserious, a scammer if not a dummy, picking off credulous "populists" one by one, proving mostly that he is smarter than
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Important graphs for Dutch journalists, politicians, and pundits. The Netherlands has the lowest (!) level of "affective polarization" and the lowest (!) level of "out-party dislike" from group of 20
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As a very pro-EU Scot who is broadly in favour of democracy, here are my Arguments against a second referendum; without using the phrase 'once in a generation' The downside
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I disagree with all four critiques of the #UAE-#Israel/#Bahrain-Israel accords made in this @washingtonpost op-ed. @FishereEzzedine https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/21/uae-bahrain-israel-accords-are-big-step-wrong-direction/
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