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To: MinorityRepublican

“Populism is incompatible with our democracy” - discuss.


3 posted on 05/04/2025 9:37:40 AM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: coloradan

The idiot doesn’t acknowledge that *populism* IS democracy.


22 posted on 05/04/2025 9:54:25 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesu)
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To: coloradan
“Populism is incompatible with our democracy” - discuss.

Whenever the phrase "our democracy" appears, it is not inclusive of all the voters. The most common usage seems to translate as "our grip on the levers of political power".

31 posted on 05/04/2025 10:44:29 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: coloradan
"dēmokratia, which was coined from dēmos (“people”) and kratos (“rule”)"

If the people are denied choices, that is not democracy.

35 posted on 05/04/2025 11:34:53 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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