B.S.
Populists believe in limited government of, by and for the people.
The opposite of populism is elitism.
Elitists (AKA Liberal Democrats) believe in unlimited government of, by and for an entitled, hereditary, autocratic political/bureaucratic class.
It is leftists who do not have and do not want moral constraints.
It is leftists who do not want to be constrained by "what was".
It is leftists who pile hate on others.
This goes so far opposite from reality it is beyond satire.
Don't you love the liberals' abilities a projection.
It appears M. Gessen’s response to the election is doubling down on self-importance.
We are NOT a Democracy!!!!!!!!!!!!! we are a REPUBLIC... “ We the PEOPLE”.........
Gaslighters.
Lib "thinking about other people" means thinking government should do "something," and then going off to have lunch.
Does every liberal hack writer have to work in the word "amplify"?
“Masha Gessen is a Russian-American journalist, author, translator. Gessen is nonbinary and trans and uses they/them pronouns.”
THIS is the dark, unspoken promise of M. Gessen: soulless transhumanism that delivers not liberation, liberty, or progress, but rather slavery, sickness physical and mental, death of the body in due time, and cursed second death, existing (not living!) in torment, apart from GOD for all eternity.
Sick, twisted, pitiful bastard.
Sure does beat the Joe Pedo and the Jamaican VooDoo queen’s sh*t show. I guess Springstein is moving to Canada. President Trump has already begun making America great again. They can keep him.
Pure projection once again. It’s the left that didn’t want to think about conservatives, constitutionalists and Christians. They want to censor, marginalise and disenfranchise their opponents.
A neo-feudalist world run be elites with peasants managed and tied down in world of ever shrinking opportunities.
“particularly on groups that cannot speak up for themselves”
But no mention of babies still in the womb?
Harris is a neo-Marxist, as are most of the writers at the Times. I’m bewildered so many Americans voted for Harris.
The fact that Trump doesn’t go full Pinochete on these Marxists means he is being kind.
Populism is not an ideology it is just emotional response. It has no attachment to a particular ideology but rather to a sense of victimhood, as in abandonment or persecution. Because of this, there can be populists of any and all political flavors, and depending on the establishment being opposed, populists can be good or evil in their intentions.
Populists can even be opposed to other populists even if all groups are anti-establishment, if one bunch believes the others are more favored by the establishment than they are, or if their ideas of what to do about it are different or opposed. Defining who is and who is not populist is like trying to nail Jello to a wall.
You are confusing populism with the political ideology of American conservatism, which is a form of classical liberalism (a belief in a constitutionally limited government whose powers are loaned to it by the people) and where the people were granted their rights by their Creator, not government and not the Constitution. In the U.S., classical liberals are called “conservatives” because they want to conserve the Constitution as it was originally understood and written by the founders, to be modified only as allowed by constitution itself.
In this country those who want to reinterpret the constitution as it is popularly understood -without regard to the founding father’s original intent - are mistakenly called liberals, even though they are generally opposed to classical liberalism because it is inconvenient.
When a conservative government is in power, the “populists” are those who believe they are victims of limited government whose interests are not being addressed. When neoliberals (progressives) are running the show, the “populists” are those who believe they are the victims of government gone wild. Thus you can be a communist and a populist at the same time, a white nationalist and populist, a black nationalist and populist, a neonazi and populist, a liberal and populist, a conservative and populist- any group that believes it not ruling class and that they are victims of whoever is in power at the moment, can be defined as populist.
Yeah, because an old Eastern European communist is a solid moral authority on politics and government.
We like other people. Nobody likes attention whores!
So, the NYT thinks the pedophile, baby-killing, child mutilating Dems/liberals are “morally restrained”.
What word salad is this - has Kamala become a ghost writer for them, or has Masha Gessen been taking gobbledygook lessons from her?