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Torgo posted...

Yeah, what you are describing here is an American populism that was born out of the last few decades of growing income inequality and then solidified after a series of financial industry crashes and bailouts created through greed and incompetence.

Both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders tapped into this populism, but unfortunately America picked the fake populist with a gold toilet in his exclusive golf resort none of these rank and file MAGA voters would be allowed to set foot on, even in their nicest clothes.

But this conservative populism, which does share some values with the far left labor movement and other legitimate organizational populist movements on the left... also has some key differences: Right wing populists are extremely xenophobic and want to cut off most of all immigration from poor or non-white countries as an example,

It's not so much that they share the values as much as they're identifying the same problems. This honestly is why Trump did so well in 2016, he tapped into that feeling of being left behind. He's absolutely focused the outrage on other poor people though, classic divide and conquer from fascists.

while on the left the labor populists think we solve immigration by making jobs have appealing and livable wages for native born citizens, instead of a second class labor force afraid to speak out against employee abuses driving down wages.

Eh? Which lefties have been advocating for living wages specifically for native born citizens? Living wages should be for all.