https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2025/10/the-pattern-where-populist-leaders-rise-to-power-and-take-advantage-of-the-populace/ Sun, 02 Nov 2025 16:18:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2025/10/the-pattern-where-populist-leaders-rise-to-power-and-take-advantage-of-the-populace/#comment-61260 Sun, 02 Nov 2025 16:18:25 +0000 https://www.spencergreenberg.com/?p=4545#comment-61260 A populist leader can also rise to power in the same way with good intentions and have it all be framed and characterized in the worst way possible by political rivals, unaware that their tribalism has control of their perception and beliefs undetectably, in regard to the opposition. Complicating matters, errors in reasoning, logical inconsistencies, and hypocrisy become guarded by a strong adversarial emotional response. Only through the horror of foregoing one’s own identity for the sake of truth, fairness, and accuracy can they have a chance of approaching relative objectivity.

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