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You can't ever be a true majority populist in a two party system, you basically by definition lose ~50% of the voting population.
He could be considered a populist in that he pandered to his base in a way that hadn't been done before, or at least, on a scale that hadn't been done before. Of the total available pool that could be considered a potential vote for him, he was basically a populist.
"People get the government they deserve" only applies when people get the government they elect.
I don't disagree with you, but also, that wasn't the point of my comment. Or at least I didn't intend for it to be.
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This is an extremely naive view of what happened.
Trump energized the right in a way that hasn't been seen since Reagan (or even more so honestly), and Hillary was a deeply unpopular candidate who lost a ton of support from her own party because of Bernie Sanders.
Obviously there was fuckery but the Dems absolutely dismissed Donald as a fringe candidate and they paid for it. We paid for it.