The extremism of popularist politics
If reactionary liberalism is so popular, why do they keep rebranding it?
Time for another round about “popularism”, this time owing to a brief little take at MSNBC by Chris Hayes. If you aren’t familiar with the term, congratulations: all you’ve missed is the latest campaign to market reactionary Democratic politics as a fresh new idea. As Chris correctly points out, what pundits like David Shor and Matt Yglesias call popula…
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