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@peterbautista I think there’s •something• to that definition, but I’m leery of it. Smells like a false equivalence factory. (“FDR was just like Trump!”)

I’m highly skeptical of the utility of “populism” as a unifying concept in general, but if we’re going to try to define it, I’d want it to be in terms of cultivating a sense of an us-vs-them battle between the “true” people (of which you are one, of course) and an powerful out-group.