Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has endorsed President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, a sign of the president’s strength in uniting his party to have the backing of one of its most liberal members
Your second paragraph (if I’m understanding correctly) sums up my entire point. The Republican party didn’t just magically arrive here. Every step on the road to Trumpism came from populist rhetoric. That is precisely the danger I’m talking about.
Sanders is absolutely the same problem from a different direction. Demonizing a faceless problem to rile people up is irresponsible and dangerous, full stop. The Republicans should be a clear warning of the dangers inherent.
Pardon if I misunderstood - had some trouble parsing your second paragraph.
The second paragraph is more about pointing to moderate stances leading into Trumpism. How does it do that? By pushing out rhetorics that shines a light into our structures and by simply hiding problems like systematic racism in the name of order. The second paragraph is not about populism, but as a observation of how anything can be argued to be bad.
You need to demonstrate that it’s a faceless problem given that younger people are having far more struggles. So far, you failed to provide that case.
Trumpism didn’t come from any specific policy. It was a combination of decades of populist/nativist rhetoric on talk radio leading into the same in mass media/the internet. Couple this with 2010s massive reshaping of congressional districts due to gerrymandering, and the radicals in the party were given the loudest voting “voice.” Together, these things removed any barriers to MAGAs ascendance from within the party. As is commonly said, the Republicans who claim to be the “Party of Reagan” would have kicked him out of the party these days
Highly recommend you read “Why We’re Polarized” by Ezra Klein for a well cited narrative of how this came to be.
Trumpism isn’t really about policies, at it’s core. It’s about feelings. Feelings of resentment, dispossession, and nameless dread of the future. See any parallels there with how non-conservatives are beginning to feel?
Literally on a front page thread today: https://lemmy.world/comment/1150069
This is not a sign of healthy discourse and it is escalating.
Trumpism did have it roots within conservative policies years ago. You can either trace it back to Nixon, or the observation of the political party switch after the Civil Rights movement. The hatred that are seen within Trumpism has always been there. It isn’t populism at all, and I’d argue it never has been any more than other political campaign strategies. And yes, there are Reagan voters that proudly support Trump as the conservative mindset of hatred were always there.
