On Thursday’s Mark Levin show, We already had a populist movement in the 1890’s that was the foundation of progressivism in the United States. This movement produced massive tariffs which lead to the destruction of the farming industry and ultimately helped bring about the Great Depression through the Smoot Hawley tariff. Progressives and populists harangue against trade and demand more power for the government. They both share the same seed of tyranny. They claim to empower the people, but only empower centralized government, and have abandoned free market capitalism and the Constitution. Constitutional conservatives are caught in between the Establishment and the progressive populists and have no place in the Republican Whig Party or the progressive populist movement. Conservatives need to realize that the only way out of this abyss is to embrace constitutional conservatism which embraces liberty. And that is the contrast between Donald Trump’s populism and Ted Cruz’s conservatism.

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Encyclopedia Britannica

Populist Movement

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