This is really interesting! Adds some complexity to the “horseshoe” theory of left and right populism.

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This article from @warringfictions.bsky.social is excellent at capturing the politics of the right's limits. The populist right views the economy through a scarcity prism and looks to account for scarcity due to immigration. parables.substack.com/p/scarcity-a...

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I argued in my thesis, but most recently in Renewal, that the populist right's attachment to limits stems from what I called Libertarian Nationalism, which puts the nation before the market: renewal.org.uk/articles/the...

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This is a really good read from @warringfictions.bsky.social - have shared with the Politics department. #EconSky parables.substack.com/p/scarcity-a...

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Pretty close to a 'political compass', only with ec right-left running bottom to top and soc auth-lib running left to right. That said, I think the 'economic axis' probably suffers most distortion from conspiracy thinking (relative to standard measures on more impersonal pseudo-policies).

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