I think this is a lesson for those of us who support economic populism: even though many, if not most Americans agree on many economic issues, we don’t agree on everything. I don’t know that we can say we have a majority consensus movement. I think there is a movement that has a plurality, and that’s the Trump movement. As much as many of us might find that pretty disheartening, I think it is nonetheless true. Of the two main populist movements in the US, the progressive populist movement is simply not as large as the right-wing, Trump populist movement. I don’t know if people like Fetterman are just more aligned with the Trump movement ideologically, or if they’re moving to the larger populist movement for strategic reasons.
I think this is a lesson for those of us who support economic populism: even though many, if not most Americans agree on many economic issues, we don’t agree on everything. I don’t know that we can say we have a majority consensus movement. I think there is a movement that has a plurality, and that’s the Trump movement. As much as many of us might find that pretty disheartening, I think it is nonetheless true. Of the two main populist movements in the US, the progressive populist movement is simply not as large as the right-wing, Trump populist movement. I don’t know if people like Fetterman are just more aligned with the Trump movement ideologically, or if they’re moving to the larger populist movement for strategic reasons.