#Populist

Chomsky would not admit that lesser evil voting produces greater evil outcomes and delivers all of the corporate policies that it was supposed to spare us from.https://twitter.com/People4Bernie/status/1316368796903526400 He also said
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back in 2016 when i started speaking out against the duterte admin because of the killings, i drew the ire of many. they called me privileged, and deluded, called me
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It should be tough for conservatives to watch the Cummings drama and retain their political philosophy. Why bother conserving national institutions like the Church of England or Right-wing newspapers when
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DJT's surge with Venezuelan voters (read that Politico article) is yet more reason as to why the 'traditionalist conservative' and 'blue collar populist' approach to GOP politics (i.e. white grievance-mongering)
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Special Branch confirms they are monitoring the dissident right in Ireland.Expected, but goes without saying watch yourselves and don't tolerate any eejits advocating violence within our circles. If the populist
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Johnson’s Biden calculation is more complex than many make out.Given the polls, UK govt has to conclude a Biden presidency most probable outcome. So why wait for it to restart
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8. In one sense, progressives need to actually learn a language they have neglected for far too long. That is the language of finance and power. Learning languages takes time,
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Let me acknowledge two important things. Republicans usually win low voter turnout elections, so they had big advantage in special election in #CA25. And I have no leg to stand
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Here's why the eurozone may not survive this crisis:1. There is a solution to the economic impact - direct monetary financing of government expenditures.2. If the US/UK recover quicker than
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If, back in February, Trump had made a TV appearance in the East Room flanked with Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell and said we were going to take certain measures
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You didn't ask for this, but I'm doing it anyway, so tough: a bit of a defence of Laura Kuenssberg.If you come to this with your mind made up, you're
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Small Thread, history repeating: I read this over at NPR about Ammon Bundy/Idaho and opposition to state efforts to curtail the spread of COVID-19. The piece mentioned hard right GOP
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All these people with AOC hate boners now shit on me when I first criticized AOC in 2018 At the time I didn't like that she was basically a product
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"Crumbling health infrastructure and mayhem everywhere is a tight slap at the face of aspirational middle class which lapped up every populist jumla Modi gave all these years. We cursed
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The SNP are suggesting *again* that we wouldn't take our share of the UK's debt. 1/https://twitter.com/JohnFerry18/status/1331731115598548992 The White Paper said this on how a independent Scottish Government would collect taxes
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The policies that Trump mentioned in his interminable Tulsa rant were tax cuts for the rich, deregulation, and conservative judges. Further evidence that he has governed as a conservative, not
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