Can nationalism and popularism be defeated in 2020 or is Trump inevitable?

[Middle-aged Europe]

the UK election is very complicated but its very similar to a Michigan, Pennslyvania and Wisconsin.

The combination of white economic popularism and hidden nationalism is an impossible combination to beat.

I don't actually know how you defeat economic nationalism in this current climate? We have a social media platform in facebook that allows any perception to be created whether true or false. We have a distrust in the media and we have a system where voters only want to listen to people with their views.

We are literally having a realignment of uneducated poor people voting for a party that solely fights for the interests of the rich and uses culture wars to pick up votes compared to a left that panders to what is right or wrong.

The left continues to be defeated and they continue to make the same mistakes because they have no answers to address white working class people.

If the left chooses Biden we have a re-run of 2016 and if the left chooses Sanders we have a massacre. The left needs to find answers fast to defeat this toxic mix of white economic nationalism and popularism because if it doesn't then Trump will win in 2020.
 

Maybe if the left would denounce communism (or socialism or progressivism or whatever they want to call it these days) they would stand a chance with that demographic.

I am reminded of the fictional show "House of Cards" (US version), where Frank Underwood is giving his speech to promote his jobs act. And though his character was a slimy worst-case type of politician, that speech he gave (despite coming from a Democrat) would have certainly got my attention.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJUyPjguq6E&feature=youtu.be

The fact you think those terms are interchangeable for the same idea shows how politically uninformed you are

They are all stepping stones to communism, whether they go all the way there or not is irrelevant. Every step towards is detrimental to success.

Going by that definition anything short of full-blown anarcho-capitalism could be considered a "stepping stone to communism"... for one thing, Donald Trump's anti-free trade stance led to the most Soviet Union-like U.S. trade policy since the end of WWII.