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		dragonwriter 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: When DEF CON partners with the U.S. Army > Trump is a right-leaning populist, which is kind of a weird position. “populist” isn't an ideological position at all, its a rhetorical approach that can go with positions pretty much anywhere in ideological space.

tracker1 8 months ago [–]

Yes, and it isn't exactly conservative or otherwise hard-right.

dragonwriter 8 months ago | [–]

It is entirely irrelevant to whether the ideology is conservative and/or hard-right, since populism describes not the substance of policy or ideology but style of rhetorical framing in a way which is largely orthogonal to ideology.

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