[mikem170]

>Is it only right wing?

That's what it said. I assumed they were talking about how bad economies led to people like Franco, Hitler, Mussolini, and since then maybe Thatcher and Reagan, also Putin, and more recently Brexit, Le May, Orban, the leaders of Poland, Brazil, Philippines, etc. Nobody's propaganda did all that. Bad economies and folks scared about change and their future did.

A very interesting book I read called "The Republican Brain" posited that people are born with a lot of their left/right thinking as part of their personalities, but that when the shit hits the fan a certain amount of left-thinking people will become more conservative.

[techelite]

Notably absent are your left wing Maos and lenin.

Either you aren't discussing in good faith or ignorant of left wing populism.

[mikem170]

I wondered about Stalin, also.

Sorry, I ended up passing along what I remembered reading, and didn't think enough about your comment. Maybe I misremembered, or it would have been more accurate to say populism, without the left/right qualifier?

I agree, that makes sense to me. Populism is not unexpected after a certain amount of economic calamity.

I'm curious if there's a left/right distinction in this context, but I have no idea.