Paradoxically, the real heir to the spirit of Maoist politics sits these days not in Beijing, but several time zones away, in Washington. Trump’s tendency to speak directly to the public through Twitter and his own personal voice has eerie parallels with the way that Mao often subverted his own propagandists and state media, reaching above their heads to the people, whom Mao always claimed to stand with.
all links read :doomjak:
I had to know. I don't know why I do this to myself :doomer:
What reasons do they give? I'm guessing it's something about their personalities
Authoritarian 1984 animal farm dystopian dictatorship pee pee poo poo
From the Diplomat article
populism is maoism lol