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the thing that makes populism so hard to resist is that in it, fantasy and reality overlap. there are always abundant examples of elite collusion and malfeasance to "prove" the populists right. but this proof misses the real source of their attachment to populism 1/

as Žižek put it, "just because they're after you doesn't mean you're not paranoid." the paranoid fantasy is independent of the empirical reality, but this reality serves as its alibi. 2/x

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