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> Trump is a right-leaning populist, which is kind of a weird position. “populist” isn't an ideological position at all, its a rhetorical approach that can go
by dragonwriter 1y ago
> Trump is a right-leaning populist, which is kind of a weird position.
“populist” isn't an ideological position at all, its a rhetorical approach that can go with positions pretty much anywhere in ideological space.
- tracker1 1y agoYes, and it isn't exactly conservative or otherwise hard-right.
- dragonwriter 1y agoIt is entirely irrelevant to whether the ideology is conservative and/or hard-right, since populism describes not the substance of policy or ideology but style of rhetorical framing in a way which is largely orthogonal to ideology.