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@BrianJopek @AlgoCompSynth Governor DeWine is having to deal with the Ohio Attorney General, Dave Yost, independently **supporting** the conspiracy theorists. They’re elected independently of each other in Ohio so the Governor has fewer tools than we’d like without the AG’s support.

@smkellat @AlgoCompSynth DeWine is still, from what I saw of him in an interview clip last night, still supporting tRump

@BrianJopek @smkellat That's a shame considering how much Ohio got from Biden's economic policies.

@AlgoCompSynth @BrianJopek @smkellat I once heard a useful idiot on the internet say: ”But Proud Boys are just libertarian social policy!”

My ass, they’re populist political thug scum. Just like all populist thugs and ecstatic lynch mobs across history have been.

J.H.Noyes

@gimulnautti @AlgoCompSynth @BrianJopek @smkellat

That's not an entirely accurate characterization of American populism. The politics of the Far Right arent inherently populist at all. Modern faux-populists like the Proud Boys and other supremacist groups is underwritten by the forces true populists would oppose: corporations and oligarchs. Calling the PBs populist is a lot like calling socialists communists even though socialism and communism have little true overlap.

digital.lib.niu.edu/illinois/g

digital.lib.niu.eduAmerican Populism, 1876-1896 | Northern Illinois University Digital Library