If you think that populism is a viable tool that can be used for good and then discarded, one that won’t be immediately turned on us the first chance you get, then you’re just a useful idiot and I’m genuinely sorry I called you subhuman. But there is no benevolent populism, and any attempt to push democrats towards being more of a reactionary anti-trump party than they already are will severely backfire. Democrats will not wield the power of unquestioning loyalty and rabid antagonism any “better” than nazis do, because democrats aren’t more virtuous than republicans, they just play a more helpful, less harmful angle. That changes the moment they realize their base is apathetic towards/actively craving genocide
If you think that populism is a viable tool that can be used for good and then discarded, one that won’t be immediately turned on us the first chance you get, then you’re just a useful idiot and I’m genuinely sorry I called you subhuman. But there is no benevolent populism, and any attempt to push democrats towards being more of a reactionary anti-trump party than they already are will severely backfire. Democrats will not wield the power of unquestioning loyalty and rabid antagonism any “better” than nazis do, because democrats aren’t more virtuous than republicans, they just play a more helpful, less harmful angle. That changes the moment they realize their base is apathetic towards/actively craving genocide