3 min readSep 10, 2022
In Brief: First, Economic Insecurity, Now Straw Man Arguments
Another Case of the Media, Trumpers, and the Curse of Both Siderism
“To understand how the populist right sees the world, it helps to go back to the last time the left was “banging on the windows of the institutions.” The period after World War II was a time of strong political consensus in America, which a “new left” rose up to challenge. There are clear parallels between today’s populist right and…