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Populist

bpostbpost Member Posts: 32,669 ✭✭✭✭
edited January 2017 in General Discussion
Definition.

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noun
noun: populist; plural noun: populists


A member or adherent of a political party seeking to represent the interests of ordinary people.
a person who holds, or who is concerned with, the views of ordinary people.


If this is what Donald Trump is; and he follows the Constitution while being one is that a bad thing?

What say you?

Comments

  • Dads3040Dads3040 Member Posts: 13,552 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Populism is a natural response to the decades of globalist statism we have seen. In the condition our body politic is, it would take quite a few years of hardline populism get to anywhere worrisome.
  • Don McManusDon McManus Member Posts: 23,681 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If he follows the Constitution, no problem.

    Problem with many populists is that they take the term literally, resulting in mob rule democracy.

    Frankly, it would be difficult to be a true Constitutionalist Populace in today's America.
    Freedom and a submissive populace cannot co-exist.

    Brad Steele
  • Horse Plains DrifterHorse Plains Drifter Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 40,175 ***** Forums Admin
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by bpost


    If this is what Donald Trump is; and he follows the Constitution while being one is that a bad thing?

    What say you?

    I'd say it's great. IF he follows the constitution. The constitution is not a pick-the part-you-like document. It is all or nothing. That would require abolishing NFA 1934, and GCA 1968, along with all other unconstitutional laws.
  • Dads3040Dads3040 Member Posts: 13,552 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Don McManus
    If he follows the Constitution, no problem.

    Problem with many populists is that they take the term literally, resulting in mob rule democracy.

    Frankly, it would be difficult to be a true Constitutionalist Populace in today's America.


    I think it depends on what is meant by the term populist, Don. In many ways, the government envisioned by the Founders could be termed populist, in that the intent was that it was the people from whom authority flowed. Madison wrote of this in Federalist 51.

    I heard echoes of this yesterday when Trump was saying that it should not matter what party was in place, because they were returning the power to the people. That is actually how the government worked until Wilson and his Progressive movement began to push the people's representatives aside and transfer control to a growing set of executive departments. That movement went full blast with Obama and his imperial lean and phone. He could barely conceal his contempt for us lower life forms who lacked his obvious gifts.

    Trump's words about the unrealized potential being robbed from us was as clear a repudiation of Obama's statist direction as could be imagined.

    Trump is not a flowery, inspirational speaker, but his words indicate the beginning of a new direction and a return to a people first focus that is long overdue.
  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    following the CONSTITUTION has been a short commodity in the last prezidency
  • mag00mag00 Member Posts: 4,719 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by spasmcreek
    following the CONSTITUTION has been a short commodity in the last prezidency


    We did not have a president for 8 years, are you referring to the Bush era? Yea, they did dumb stuff too.
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