Tornado Alley (PROG)

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Well, thats another theory on the subject, there as many or more who see it the other way....History itself is a teacher when you look at the rise of revolutions over time....Be it a facist or leftist revolution they all began with inequity as the root cause.........And neither of the 2 when they won turned out well for the people......But not all populist movements end in revolution, dems have even had their own...

Here I think we are at a cross road over inequity that has created dissatisfaction with the government and politicians, how well they are working for the people,,, against the elite who gain more than their fair share because of the government and politicians have let them do it......Dems threw the working class under the bus, they are seen as elitist, corporately run and obviously corrupted by it...(lots more we could add into it in our political situation to)

Hence a Trump like character who is willing to say the system is corrupt, he is willing to snitch on the elite, claims no allegiance to a political party per se, drain the swamp in government as he puts it, cut through the red tape of bureaucracy..........(however when the situation is ripe for populism, people have taken advantage it)

So I say, populism doesn't stand much of a chance when its smooth sailing for the vast majority......

And the debate at Oxford was more to is populism a part of democracy or anti so.....The rebuttal claimed its a part of ...

Thanks for the piece, here is another on populist moments and the people involved....

Populist Democrats? Unpacking the Relationship Between Populist and Democratic Attitudes at the Citizen Level
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00323217231173800