'Progressive Populists need to understand the current struggle as a long-term battle over whose interests the Democratic party and the broader U.S. political system serve.'
Much ink has been spilt on the subject of populism, so it would be a fool's errand for me to presume to settle the debate over the meaning of the term. I will simply confine myself to pointing out two well-established facts. First, the original 19th century U.S. populists sought to forge a multi-racial movement of the producing classes to challenge the abuses of power by big corporations and wealthy individuals.
This history leads to the second point. It has never made much sense to speak of"right-wing populism" as an ideological corollary to left-wing populism. Especially today when what many writers have referred to as Trumpian right-wing populism has gone off the rails into something overtly authoritarian and anti-democratic , the simplistic and false equivalence of"right-wing populism" should be permanently laid to rest.
In a parallel development we are also seeing the culmination of the decades long project of Leonard Leo, the Federalist Society, and a network of conservative nonprofit organizations who, according to, spent nearly $600 million between 2014 and 2019 to reshape the federal courts by getting extreme right-wing judges confirmed.
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