(July 16, 2025 at 9:37 am)Angrboda Wrote:Quote:In a populist movement like MAGA, the “people” are defined narrowly as only those “good” or “true” Americans — meaning typically, though not exclusively, white rural Christian Republicans. Trump presents himself as their champion against the malign forces of globalist liberalism, personified by the Washington political establishment and coastal cultural elite (a construction that easily and regularly shades into antisemitism).
https://archive.ph/O2igb#selection-921.0-971.219
Somehow Trump has gotten away with conflating Democrats with the elites in his version of populism.
