While rebutting another post here on Lemmy, I ran into this. This says exactly what I want to say.
I am not a friend of Biden’s Administration. I think they drug their feet over a variety of things ranging from holding Trump and his goons accountable for January 6th through rulemaking on issues like OTC Birth Control and abortion rights, and yes, I think he’s too quick to please big business. But then I remember what the alternative is, and … well, disappointed in Biden or not, I’m voting for him. Because my wife is a Black bisexual goth woman, four strikes under Team Pepe’s tent. And I have my own strikes for marrying her as a White dude, and respecting her right to not have kids since she doesn’t want them is another strike against me. And I care about my Non-Christian, Gay, Transgender, and Minority friends, and will never willingly subject them to Team Pepe.
Yeah, Trump is responsive to ‘the will of the people’ because trump is a populist.
Unfortunately populism is a terrible way of running government.
Why?
It proposes simple solutions to complex problems and ignores nuance. (Lock her up, build the wall, make America great again, drain the swamp).
It’s contradictory; trump wants to simplify government and reduce expenditure but at the same time expanded various government functions.
It lacks expertise; populists don’t care for expert opinion because the ‘will of the people’ is correct. It’s often not.
That’s not what fucking populism means. It’s what pseudo intellectuals pretend it means when they see politicians listening to people that disagree with said pseudo intellectuals.
You just restated exactly what populism is. Bravo.
In your earlier explanation it wasn’t really clear that populism is full of empty promises. The reply made that clear.
No, i really didn’t. There’s a real obvious difference stated.
Yes, but worse than populism is being hellbent on evil like Biden is on Gaza