A look at populism: the right wing - tea party - version and the left-wing - Occupy - version.

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4. The OP is about left-wing vs right-wing populism. Don't you accept that there is a difference

between the two? If you disagree with the author, what do you think the difference between right-wing and left-wing populism is?

I do agree with the author that right-wing populism (of the teabagger variety) is characterized by a preference that "solutions are to be found in an increasingly closed model of society that can privilege them, protect them, as the ordinary, true people...". The teabaggers have summed it up nicely, "We want our country back (in our own hands, not those of minorities, foreigners and liberals)."

Do you think that conservatives always have as their goal a "closed model of society" not an open one.

Do you disagree with the author that liberal populism seeks to create an "open society, mindful of diversity"?