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> voting for politicians out of parasocial attachment is one of the most pernicious and enduring traps in electoral politics

Would "cultivates parasocial attachments among their follows" serve as a definition of political populism? Our parties are not symmetrical, as I'd argue the left is too diverse to effectively create a parasocial base large enough to win national elections, whereas there's (barely) a large enough "white identity politics" base for the right to do so.