Like the far right in my country before the elections “We have the solution to fix the economy, vote for us” - without of course saying what they’re going to do.
Unfortunately, majority of people believed them
Populism works, people like to vote for someone that says what they want to listen even if it’s obvious that they’re not going to do that
Generally their playbook is open, it just doesn’t work. Their strategy is to let rich people do whatever they want and hoard as much wealth as they can, and that prosperity obviously will trickle down to everyone.
However when taxes are relatively higher on the rich and regulations do things like punish them for poisoning a water source, they spend their resources gaslighting the populace into thinking economy is just terrible and if your personal experience does not bear that out, well your just lucky and you’ll be out on the streets in a few months unless you vote right.
Like the far right in my country before the elections “We have the solution to fix the economy, vote for us” - without of course saying what they’re going to do.
Unfortunately, majority of people believed them
Populism works, people like to vote for someone that says what they want to listen even if it’s obvious that they’re not going to do that
Generally their playbook is open, it just doesn’t work. Their strategy is to let rich people do whatever they want and hoard as much wealth as they can, and that prosperity obviously will trickle down to everyone.
However when taxes are relatively higher on the rich and regulations do things like punish them for poisoning a water source, they spend their resources gaslighting the populace into thinking economy is just terrible and if your personal experience does not bear that out, well your just lucky and you’ll be out on the streets in a few months unless you vote right.