Was Epstein kind of the end of the "populism" grift for the right? Sort of the point when people are realizing "wait a minute, they really will make any hollow promise in order to get in to office,"?

Populism is a meaningless slur that just boils down to "things which are popular which the elite don't like, so we need a way to denigrate them as stupid no-no policies for dumb-dumbs"

>>513970568 (OP)
That grift will keep on being a thing for a long time. Maga people will keep saying they're fighting the system.

>>513970777
I know but what do you do when "populism" itself is pandered by elites in order to garner power? Thats the grift I am discussing.

>>513971104
Given the choice between someone who says they'll do what I want versus someone who doesn't, I'll choose the former, regardless of the likelihood that they're lying

>>513971263
Given the choice between someone who says they're going to close borders and release the Epstein files, and someone who says they don't, I would vote for the one who doesn't cut medicaid. So we are on big opposite ends of that question

>>513971480
>>513971263
Make no mistake anon, you have abused much of your base with the antipopulist turn and we're not as dumb as you think we are and we're not likely to forget about what you did to us.

>>513971480
Cutting welfare and burying the Epstein op are uniparty consensus policy

>>513972198
Yeah? I am pretty sure the healthcare and social security shit gets cut under republicans and that you are just treating me like I am stupid. Like blatant propaganda artists such as yourself ALWAYS do to me. And so if you are not fixing immigration and fighting against power, then I am voting for more medicaid

>>513972420
Republicans shift economic policy to the right and Democrats block movement back leftwards. Democrats shift social policy to the left and Republicans block movement back rightwards. They both sprout from the same evil neoliberal seed

>>513973086
Well it seems to me that the situation is the populist elements of the republican party's Trump platform, which I will tell you that I personally was stupid enough to vote for twice, have eroded and been exposed as a sham. So now what you're trying to do is get me, a normal every day person, to vote for billionaire tax cuts and medicaid cuts and you are not giving me shit. And worse you treat me like I am stupid with your comments in this post

>>513973302
...Fucking bad grammar. Oh well