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boy are we crying out for some kind of rabble-rousing populist in a prominent position

By Western European standards, every American politician is a rabblerousing populist, and this is a big part of why American governance doesn't work.

Yes? A European politician who made up Normal People to relate to the way Schumer does would be presumed far right and unserious until proven otherwise. Ditto one who interfered with competitive bidding to steer a few jobs into a district. We have class and ideological political frameworks instead.

making up Normal People as a political lodestar doesn't make someone a rabble-rouser. rather the opposite in fact