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[quote]Being a populist means you support an activist, big government.[/quote] in the name of support of the true people as long as the government is not serving the false people. ...

Nah, he's living off his Acorn work for >15 years. Why can't he get into Cabal meetings? ...

Good 2-part post. I would just add the dimension that populism takes its authority to come from "the people" but when counted, populists typically amount to a minority of the whole population. They sometimes try to elide this by squinting at the whole population and defining the people down to "the ...

[quote]They can also be prosecuted. There's nothing that implies that impeachment is the only solution and the Constitution makes it pretty clear that criminal prosecution and impeachment are separate[/quote] In fact, [i]Trump's own lawyer[/i] in his impeachment defense argued that he shouldn't b...

My fellow Americans, the storm is upon us. :usa:...

That's fair. I was responding more broadly to their overall tariff differences, but yeah, the world security situation seem to have changed his position on those particular tariffs. There's still a huge difference between them on tariffs. ...

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Any medical or mental health provider who takes care of traumatized people is going to tell you the same thing. But that's just not hypeable in law-enforcement and mass media terms - can you imagine a hype campaign on the dangers of step-dads? They're way more dangerous in real-world terms than ...

Moral panics are always characterized by the exaggeration and distortion of some social issue that is to some extent real, but for which media and state actors can capitalize. There's a symbiotic relationship where officials disseminate their narratives and the media secures a large audience and adv...

I think he's saying the media has its own incentives for hyping it as a moral panic as they have with the war on drugs. ...