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ChrisMcDanielWasRobbed
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« on: September 17, 2020, 08:44:01 PM »
I feel like it is since it always the people against x.
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« Reply #1 on: September 17, 2020, 08:56:19 PM »
Yes, mob rule is the worst form of tyranny.
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« Reply #2 on: September 17, 2020, 09:22:28 PM »

I generally agree, but that doesn't make it authoritarian.
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« Reply #3 on: September 17, 2020, 11:00:37 PM »
"Mob rule" is a ancient trope that been used by elites to oppress people for eons. The fact that nothing like it has ever existed (the French Revolution wasn't a mob) should have meant the end of this bogeyman ages ago.
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« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2020, 01:15:39 AM »
Yes, it is, and that's what makes it so great.

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« Reply #5 on: September 18, 2020, 02:18:41 AM »
Quote from: Does the title even matter? on September 17, 2020, 11:00:37 PM
"Mob rule" is a ancient trope that been used by elites to oppress people for eons.

If it ain't broke...
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« Reply #6 on: September 18, 2020, 05:13:03 AM »
Populism can be little more than a rhetorical tool for election campaigns.
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« Reply #7 on: September 18, 2020, 05:30:42 AM »
 I think all politicians are populist in varying degrees and no one is immune to the authoritarian temptation. Another question is that there's a necessary and automatic connection between populism and authoritarianism


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« Reply #8 on: September 18, 2020, 05:38:36 AM »
No.

It's generally authoritarian, but there is the occasional anti-authoritarian populist movement.
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« Reply #9 on: September 18, 2020, 10:39:27 AM »
Obviously not.  Many of the anti-monarchical movements of the 19th and early 20th century could be described as populist.
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« Reply #10 on: September 18, 2020, 10:46:24 AM »
Populism is a style, not an ideology. The style isn't inherently authoritarian, no.
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« Reply #11 on: September 18, 2020, 12:47:11 PM »
Quote from: ChrisMcDanielWasRobbed on September 17, 2020, 08:44:01 PM
I feel like it is since it always the people against x.
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« Reply #12 on: September 18, 2020, 02:50:44 PM »

That speech was written by the 1960s equivalent of Stephen Miller.
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« Reply #13 on: September 18, 2020, 04:51:26 PM »
Quote from: Santander on September 18, 2020, 02:50:44 PM

That speech was written by the 1960s equivalent of Stephen Miller.

Who later changed his identity and wrote a book
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« Reply #14 on: September 18, 2020, 04:53:43 PM »
Hugo Chavez was like a hard left Trump taken up to 11. His country suffered a lot.
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« Reply #15 on: September 19, 2020, 07:26:53 PM »
Populism is nothing but a rhetorical strategy. It is an appeal to the masses in an attempt to make a candidate or an idea appear to be "one of them" and all that. It can be applied to basically any ideology.
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« Reply #16 on: September 19, 2020, 09:21:23 PM »
Populism has no fixed identity, it is typically mirror reflection (thus demonstrating the opposite attributes of) whatever the perceived establishment/elite/power base or structure is.
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