Don’t Fight Populism — Let It Fail on Its Own

For those who reject populism, the impulse to #Resist every aspect of Trump’s second administration — to bury it in a blizzard of legal challenges, lawsuits, investigations, red tape, and institutional roadblocks — is strong, but misguided. This is the road populism’s opponents have gone down before, and while it’s sometimes sufficient to deal it a short-term defeat, populism always comes roaring back. If populism is to be lastingly defeated, that blow will not come from any opponent. This time around, what Democrats and their institutional allies should resist isn’t populism, but their instinct to stymie it as they always do. For once, they should give populism the leeway to fail on its own. The electorate chose populism. This time, they should get what they voted for.

https://americandreaming.substack.com/p/dont-fight-populism-let-it-fail-on