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Judgmenl posted...

American populism is about targeting electoral votes which means targeting rural voters. It's not about popularity.

Yellow posted...

Populism means you advocate for ideas that help the common man (or at the very least pretend to).

And yeah that's actually a definition because there are politicians dumb enough to not do that.

Self-confessed 'populists' rarely if ever deliver on promises, so I fail to see how they are actually different from a typical Liberal or Conservative. That's what I typically see from those who describe themselves as such.

People seem to have ideas what populism is about, but as far as American populism goes...it's an extremely thin veneer over top of a completely ass-normal politician or journalist.

I'd be interested in people naming who they think are populists though. I usually see media figures like those from "The Hill" and "Breaking Points" call themselves populist and have on populist guests. I don't consider them to be different from typical fare, even though they brand themselves as 'alternative'.