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Over 80 Percent Of Texas Women Don't Know How Bad Their State's Abortion Laws Are
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That's the beauty of sado-populism

  • Enact policy that hurts your constituents

  • Blame out-group du jour for the problem

  • Run on "stopping" said out-group

  • Rinse and repeat, change out-group as necessary.

Populism is always bad. Be it left or right, conservative or liberal, socialist or capitalist. It is always reactionary and never leads anywhere sane or sober.

Can you please define what you view as "populism"? For whatever reason every time someone says it they either mean a definition so vague and broad that it means almost any mass movement or definition different from any other I've heard.

I have spent the past few weeks constantly getting more and more confused.