The Difference Between Left Wing Populism & Right Wing Populism

In the 2016 Presidential election, it was clear that the American people wanted change. Obama hadn't delivered on many of his promises and Hillary Clinton seemed to be promising more of the same. Populist candidates emerged on both sides of the political spectrum. Bernie Sander and Donald Trump became populist avatars for their side. Many Obama voters became Sanders supporters but some became Trump supporters. How did this happen?

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By expanding our view of capitalism beyond the economy to take in these other dimensions of the crisis we have a better chance of constructing a broad kind of Alliance, the broad kind of political front that we need to do something about. okay. and so if the idea is you know where we are by expanding our definition of capitalism and these multiple crises we will find more allies essentially. What is the limiting principle? I mean because you talk about you know and should there be one as we go out and look for allies. you talk about the different types of populism or the two types of populism. sort of the left and the right and the left having a binary notion of what we're dealing with in terms of populism. And the right has a tripartite aversion. And then also there the way that the left and the right Define their enemies different. that will you walk us through those and is that the sort of limiting principle. Is that where we know not this gives us the lines to know where we don't look for allies. Or is that or is it that we're trying to change the way that those who look at the tripartite version of populism adopt the binary. but walk us through those and then and then answer I don't need to put that all together. a great question. I mean you know what I said before about the people losing faith in the established parties and political leaders and so on look looking for the box that's what has given us left populism versus the right populism. in the United States we can say Sanders versus Trump if we go back to 2016. which is when this all exploded. and yes I think that if you think about what's the difference between those two some in some of their language overlapped right? Both of them talked about a rigged system. and that was very interesting. and that word rigged is such a powerful word. it really resonated with many many many people. who had been feeling for a long time that you know that they were being sort of played for suckers in our whole form of life here. okay, what's the difference though? Basically, I think that if we talk about trumpism. for example right-wing populism I think that their picture of society is that there are the good Real Americans The Virtuous people that are caught between two blood-sucking enemies right: The Wealthy Coastal Elites at the top and the immigrants the Mexicans the blacks the Jews you know the scapegoats du jour. all of them. and those people are sucking you know preying on The Virtuous people caught in the middle.