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82. Related or not, the GOp has hijacked "populism" into "popular racism" when it should be the "populism" of working people

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Tue Mar 31, 2026, 09:56 PM

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a la Bernie Sanders and AOC.

If the Democratic party has been identified by "promouns and identity politics" it is because of unrelenting focus on thos issues by the monster RW media machine.

The Democratic Party has not won the banner of populism and workers because it has not focused on the elephant in the room, the insane and criminal concentration of wealth by a few oligarchs.

THE ISSUE IS THERE FOR THE TAKING.

It is the cause of almost all the ills in society.

Not to mention the penchant of said oligarchs for illicit sex with minors.

THEY ARE THE EPSTEIN CLASS.

Press, really press the BIG ISSUE and the party won't be identified by whatever Pox News chooses to identify it as.

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