Most annoying "normie" political takes ?

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Populism as an ideology rather than a rhetorical style.

God, that's one that's really quite cringy. Even "populism" as how the chattering class defines it (and this has trickled down to the common man) barely even functions as a cohesive ideology if we take it as face value, being as credible as calling every political grouping in 1917 Russia to the left of the kadets "revolutionaries". Like, what the hell is that supposed to tell us about what these people actually favor, in terms of substance? At there's something tangible to the definition of "nationalism". "Populism" even if it's taken seriously as an ideology, makes no sense as an ideology.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

"The parties switched in 1964."

Say what?

If you look at the map there is a lot of truth to that statement.
It didn't happen in one election but by 2012 the states had pretty much switched; Obama won every state that Lincoln won.

Some states have remained consistently GOP (in the west, Kansas for example).

Many states which were and still are very GOP went for Johnson that year.

People conflate an ideological switch with a geographic one, and wildly overstate how much of a clean break there actually was.
Yes, a geographic "switch" happened, but it was accompanied with the death of a generation wedded to big government in a way its successors weren't and  Democrats consciously chasing the Northern vote. The "economic left" itself saw a steady shift in its base from South to North. Even then, "Yellow Dog" Democrats were a sizable voter bloc until surprising recently. Obama won those above the age of 80 in some heavily conservative Southern states in 2008 and even 2012...