AOC’s reframing here cuts to the heart of it:
A politics that blames the most vulnerable people in society for society’s problems is diametrically opposed to a politics that blames the most powerful. Lumping these opposites together as both being “populism” is nonsense.
It is important, she says, to provide an explanation of the •causes• of society’s problems — both why and who — or the worst people will fill that explanatory vacuum.
@inthehands Yes, the term 'populism' is widely abused. It means a political position that your base likes but is absurd or impractical upon examination. A good example is One Nation's wish to stop migration at a time when several economic sectors depend on it and the CEO of Stockland home-builders says we need 5x the current number of skilled migrants to actually build enough homes to ease our housing crisis. Claiming the rich and powerful cause society's big problems is quite logical because they have the power. #auspol