• Ofiuco@piefed.ca
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    11 hours ago

    Oh hey, more propaganda and Lemmy users swallowing it whole.
    No wonder populists always use the leftist flag.

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      10 hours ago

      Actual populists rarely call themselves populists, you got that right at least. Mainly because a good chunk of people they pander to aren’t bright enough to understand the term “populist”.

      But the ones I can think of are all firmly right wing. Trump. Orbán. Farage. And not one of them is, or would call themselves “leftist”.

      There was one guy back in the late 1930s who tried that and it didn’t go well for him, and I suspect that makes them nervous.

      But then, you probably think that guy actually was a socialist.