Russian intelligence is operating a systematic program to launder pro-Kremlin propaganda through private relationships between Russian operatives and unwitting US and western targets, according to newly declassified US intelligence.
First, if you feel Bernie and Trump are both populists then that term means absolutely nothing.
Second, people don’t go “I like this guy because he wants to tax the rich, have universal healthcare and wants to go regulations to help stop climate change,” and then when that guy loses think “this other guy who acts nothing like the candidate I supported and has literally the opposite policies might hear me so I’m all in on him!”
This is a fiction made up to push to narrative that it isn’t foreign propaganda.
First, if you feel Bernie and Trump are both populists then that term means absolutely nothing.
“Populist” can mean different things and have different connotations. Bernie was a positive sort of populist, in the sense that he advocated for policies that would help the working class. Trump was a negative sort of populist, in the sense that’s a euphemism for “demagogue.”
Populist really just means telling people what they want to hear. Bernie and Trump are both populists, they just have (largely) very different audiences.
No. That is simply untrue.
First, if you feel Bernie and Trump are both populists then that term means absolutely nothing.
Second, people don’t go “I like this guy because he wants to tax the rich, have universal healthcare and wants to go regulations to help stop climate change,” and then when that guy loses think “this other guy who acts nothing like the candidate I supported and has literally the opposite policies might hear me so I’m all in on him!”
This is a fiction made up to push to narrative that it isn’t foreign propaganda.
“Populist” can mean different things and have different connotations. Bernie was a positive sort of populist, in the sense that he advocated for policies that would help the working class. Trump was a negative sort of populist, in the sense that’s a euphemism for “demagogue.”
Populist really just means telling people what they want to hear. Bernie and Trump are both populists, they just have (largely) very different audiences.
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