The Populist Right

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• ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  No … they didn’t really believe the billionaires would save them

  They thought that they would all magically become billionaires

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• RedditWanderer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  They still think that. They are happy, just not on the inside

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  • LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Thinking is not their strong suit, but I believe that they will eventually get the message when things get shitty enough.

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    • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      People were miserable, and he offered them someone to blame and they voted for him. He never actually made them better, on the contrary, but still his support skyrocketed when he conquered France in '41

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• pickman_model@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The populists are there for personal gain. They will be Ok in this story. The rest, on the other side…

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• lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  They help them to stay in power as long as they need them. Close enough for most

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• griff@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  “right is wrong” —Thelonious Monk

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