My nominee for the most misleading and hazardous sentence in American politics: President Trump is a populist.
Yes, he loves to sound like a populist. He draws angry lines of division between a nasty, mask-wearing, church-hating, science-worshiping elite and the good, plain folks who support him. But this man who spends a lot of time in a golf cart at his resorts for the ultrarich is about as populist as the people paying his membership dues.
It has been widely and correctly observed that Trump is doing all he can to distract attention from his mishandling of the covid-19 crisis. But much of what he’s up to is consistent with a longer-term effort to mask the truth about his presidency: His policies resolutely favor the wealthy and the connected over the working class whose banner he claims to carry. He wants the media and the public to talk about anything except the main story line.
“Opening up the economy” sounds good. But in Trump’s hands, it means: “Go back to work, and don’t expect anyone in our administration to worry about your health — or your life.” He would much rather have us fighting about whether houses of worship should be open than focusing on the rise of hunger and his party’s resolute refusal to expand the food stamp program to alleviate suffering.Trump and his supporters love to demonize — falsely, it should be said — scientists and other “experts” for their alleged indifference to unemployment even as he and his party slow-walk further action to save jobs.
And you need to be called out for spewing out as much diatribe as humanly possible.
Trumpist populism: you get nothing, my cronies will loot the country, but some public figures that you don’t like, who are upper middle class, will get attacked on social media
Another crap opinion from the Washington Post, working hard every day to destroy America from within.
You mean National Socialism?
what if realDonaldTrump was wearing this
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