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I never knew populism had so many facets.
It has one (1) facet, no matter if it's left or right wing populism.
"Those bastards over there are the cause of all of your misfortune, and if you hire me, I'll **** them up real bad."
Recently, we had a billionaire who pretended to be a man of the people, to protect them against "the elites," but who then immediately went after dirt-poor Mexicans, referring to them as mostly rapists and murderers. Imagine, thinking a billionaire was going to give a shit about the unwashed po'bucker masses. That requires a level of stupidity that makes you wonder how the populists remember to breathe.
We also had a populist left, the bernie or bust crowd, who have dug themselves in to resist any improvements at all, because they're sulking that Bernie didn't get the nomination, and in fact 10% of them voted for Trump to "teach the liberals a lesson."
In neither case is the actual politician the problem. The problem is the mouth-breathing idiots that idolize them.