The Politics of Populism

I'm not really sure what he's for in many cases. He probably is more willing to use the powers of government in a very non-conservative way on certain things. The entire point of being a conservative is to have some kind of tethered principle, some anchoring there. So that's populism, right? Because I'm like, is it going to be popular to give everyone a $2,000 check? Yes. Does that make it the right thing? No. And liberalism just is the political mechanism for that kind of mentality,. Do you see any, are they aware of the liberals though? I mean, I see socialists mostly.

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