But in this case, he has a point. AOC and Trump before her and the Brexit campaigners and all of the despotic populists that are being elected worldwide have struck a vein of discontent among populace in many countries. AOC would not have gotten elected if people that voted in the primary in her district did not feel that they are being shortchanged by the system as it is. Trump would not have won Michigan and Wisconsin and come close to winning Minnesota if people that voted for him who are not racist did not feel that they are being shortchanged by the system as it is. It is easy enough to say that only racists or hateful people voted for Trump, but that ignores that some of those people voted for President Obama when he ran on a platform of Hope as changing the system as it was. Brexit was voted in because enough Britains bought into the horseshit that they were being shortchanged.
Until competent leaders figure out where the discontent is coming from (it is clearly economic uncertainty, IMO), then populists will continue to give rosy solutions to tough problems and win races that they should not win.
I watched my mom babysit infants when I was young, a baby would just start crying and would force her to go through a list of things to figure out why the baby was crying. To ward of dangerous populism (in some, but not all cases - for example, I think AOC is right), politician will need to check for a wet or shitty diaper, or check the formula bottle, or figure out whether the baby just need to be fed, or it is tired and need to be rocked to sleep - absent that effort and fixes, populists will continue to gain ground with the simple argument that something is wrong.
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