It truly is an interesting question what happens if you try do a Peronist government, but instead of giving your supporters things, you just repeatedly kick them in the balls.
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And the money kept rolling in...
aug 12, 2025, 1:23 am • 0 0 • view
My read is that he IS giving his supporters something: he's kicking the people they hate in the balls worse than he's kicking his supporters. Which is what they seem to want above and beyond any handouts to themselves.
aug 11, 2025, 2:49 pm • 16 0 • view
His approval is in the 30s.
aug 11, 2025, 2:52 pm • 11 0 • view
It’s at like 43
aug 11, 2025, 5:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Even so that's -10 points or more.
aug 11, 2025, 6:07 pm • 0 0 • view
ranges from 37 to 43- ish
aug 11, 2025, 7:05 pm • 0 0 • view
His approval is sinking *in the GOP*, so I think that theory has some pretty big holes in it. Yes, he probably has a core who'd suicide-bomb a black neighborhood if they weren't chickenshit, but that core isn't big enough to win elections.
aug 11, 2025, 3:44 pm • 25 1 • view
It's Temu Peronism with Orbanist characteristics. (I was going to say Pinochet, but he brought in the Chicago Boys. )
aug 11, 2025, 4:04 pm • 3 1 • view
Biggest psychiatry experiment in history.
aug 11, 2025, 2:42 pm • 7 0 • view
I mean, he is a huge admirer of Kim Jong Un
aug 11, 2025, 3:04 pm • 1 0 • view
Kick them in the big balls
aug 11, 2025, 3:52 pm • 1 0 • view
the political scientist in me is fascinated by this experiment unfortunately the rest of me has to live in your attic
aug 11, 2025, 2:37 pm • 38 1 • view
It’s basically 1790s France or 1910s Russia, it’s not anything new and the subsequent tyranny is more dangerous than the incompetent person being deposed
aug 11, 2025, 2:44 pm • 0 0 • view
The inevitable result is the most violent populists killing the moderates to consolidate power so we’re in for a very rough ride.
aug 11, 2025, 2:45 pm • 1 0 • view
The US hasn’t yet had a 1789 or a 1905.
aug 11, 2025, 3:01 pm • 4 0 • view
Are there historical examples of this?
aug 11, 2025, 2:56 pm • 3 1 • view