'Elites use [the term 'populism'] to show their contempt for ordinary people,'
Oxford Union Debate: Winston Marshall Demolishes Pelosi’s Argument That Voters Are The Problem With DemocracyWe’ve known for a long time that the Democrats loathe and disdain normal Americans. Whether we are busy clinging to our guns and God , just downright deplorables , or threats to the soul of nation , everyday American voters are constantly belittled, demonized, and/or ignored by Democrat elites .
Pelosi — a self-described “devout” Catholic — said during the April 25 debate that certain Americans, whom she considered to be “poor souls who are looking for some answers,” refuse to accept the answers Democrats give them on particular topics due to their beliefs about “guns, gays, God.” “It’s about all of that, and that is everything that the populist regime in Washington, D.C., is against,” she added. “Ethno-nationalistic populism, as is the threat to democracy, is about threatening what they call elites, a free press,” she said. “It’s about fighting issues that relate to free and fair elections, where we have voter suppression to the nth degree under this regime and its resistance to passing the Voting Rights Act, the John Lewis Act, all of that.
Marshall was much more coherent and made a great, thankfully linear case for populism, seeming to expand the meaning far beyond the one Pelosi offered .Marshall argued at the April 25 debate that the meaning of the word “populist” has been changed by “elites have failed” to align with their own narrative.
. . . . “Populism is not a threat to democracy. Populism is democracy. And why else have universal suffrage if not to keep elites in check?”
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