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The extremism of popularist politics
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The extremism of popularist politics

If reactionary liberalism is so popular, why do they keep rebranding it?

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Carl Beijer
Jul 07, 2022
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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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