History As It Happens: The 'Fake' Populists

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History As It Happens: The 'Fake' Populists
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'To be sure, today’s populists on the left and right may have little in common with the first populist movement in the United States.' HistoryAsItHappens podcast

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Why would a U.S. senator pen a polemical attack against a history professor? Florida Senator Marco Rubio labeled Princeton's Sean Wilentz a"cisgender white male" who "reeks of privilege" after Wilentz wrote an op-ed accusing Rubio of standing"

in the sorry tradition of the great propagandists” who are guilty of “the deliberate manipulation and falsification of events for political purposes.” In early August Wilentz had been among a handful of esteemed scholars invited to the White House to talk to President Biden privately about threats to democracy at home and abroad. Rubio was not at that meeting, but he claimed to know -- without evidence -- that the historians told the president to ignore"working everyday people and their common sense.

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