Lending support to populist

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February 10, 2017 at 7:34 pm #124838
jondwhite
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Lending support to populist leaders means you're in a worse (at least psychologically) position for taking power back from them at the next opportunity.The surest footing for socialism is popularity on its own merits.Something like what you're proposing happened in the US when officially meeting with FDR set the Socialist Party of America on a downward spiral from which it never recovered. It decimated their vote.https://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/2010s/2016/no-1343-july-2016/spa-dashed-rocks-compromise