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.
From the Diplomat article
populism is maoism lol