The Biden regime’s humanitarian aid to Afghanistan appears to be ending up in the hands of the Taliban. During a recent House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee hearing, Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.) lambasted the poorly overseen State Department expenditure.
The Biden regime, Mast observes, has “sent more than $2.8 billion to Afghanistan since the Taliban took power in August of 2021.” A federal inspector general’s report shows “tens of millions of dollars of that money going directly into the hands of the Taliban.”
“It is unacceptable for any U.S. funding to benefit the Taliban,” agreed Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee, demanding Biden “take immediate action to prevent U.S. taxpayer dollars from going to the Taliban.”
McCaul cited findings from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) showing that the Taliban had indirectly received at least $10.9 million from U.S. taxpayers. However, SIGAR warns this is likely only a fraction of the Taliban’s indirect U.S. taxpayer funding through taxes, fees, and other means.
Mast also criticized the State Department for a $500,000 grant to “promote atheism in Nepal,” which is predominantly Hindu, raising a broader problem of reckless federal spending.
Waste also plagues U.S. aid to Ukraine. U.S. taxpayers are not only providing and paying for weapons for Volodymyr Zelensky’s forces but also paying the salaries of Ukrainian government workers, subsidizing Ukrainian businesses, and purchasing supplies for Ukrainian farmers.
U.S. investigative journalist Seymour Hersh estimates Zelensky, his government ministers, and commanders have embezzled “at least” $400 million in U.S. aid in 2022 alone.
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The Biden regime's humanitarian aid to Afghanistan appears to be ending up in the hands of the Taliban. During a recent House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee hearing, Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.) lambasted the poorly overseen State Department expenditure.
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Police shot a male migrant dead following a series of violent knife attacks on Friday evening. The 27-year-old suspect, identified as an Afghan national, initially attacked another Afghan, aged 23, in Wolmirstedt—a German town approximately 80 miles west of Berlin—using a “knife-like object,” resulting in the younger migrant’s death.
Subsequently, the Afghan targeted a group of soccer fans watching the opening game of the Euro 2024 tournament between Germany and Scotland. During the attack in the yard of a private residence, the migrant injured three German men, two of them seriously.
The Afghan also tried to attack officers responding to the incident, resulting in his fatal shooting. The Interior Ministry in Saxony-Anhalt, the German federal state encompassing Wolmirstedt, has announced an increased police presence across the region.
Authorities have yet to reveal the motive behind the attacks. At the end of May, another Afghan in the German city of Mannheim stabbed multiple people at an anti-Islamization rally, killing a police officer. Days later, a man caught vandalizing posters for the anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party stabbed an AfD candidate who confronted him.
The AfD placed second in the recent European Parliament elections, ahead of the governing Social Democrats and their coalition partners.
Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) released data this year showing that foreigners, who make up just 14.6 percent of the population, are implicated in 58.5 percent of all violent crimes in the country.
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Police shot a male migrant dead following a series of violent knife attacks on Friday evening. The 27-year-old suspect, identified as an Afghan national, initially attacked another Afghan, aged 23, in Wolmirstedt—a German town approximately 80 miles west of Berlin—using a "knife-like object," resulting in the younger migrant's death.
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Hungary faces a significant financial penalty from the European Union‘s highest court due to its non-compliance with policies surrounding the treatment of migrants and asylum seekers at its borders. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has determined that Hungary must pay a fine amounting to €200 million, with an additional daily penalty of one million euros, until the required changes are fully implemented.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán expressed his discontent with the ruling in a Facebookpost, calling it “outrageous and unacceptable.” The nation’s nationalist government has previously refused to enforce a 2020 court decision mandating the modification of its asylum procedures and border policies.
The ECJ elaborated that Hungary did not adhere to the mandatory measures outlined in the 2020 judgment. Specifically, the court cited Hungary’s failure to allow applicants for international protection to remain in the country while their appeals against rejection were pending. Furthermore, the judgment highlighted the requirement to regulate the expulsion of unlawfully present third-country nationals.
Hungary’s current legislation stipulates that asylum requests must be submitted at Hungarian embassies in neighboring Serbia or Ukraine. Individuals attempting unauthorized border crossings are typically turned back. Prime Minister Orbán‘s government has pointed to the closure of pre-existing “transit zones” as partial compliance, despite the European Commission‘s assertion that these actions have not met the court’s directives.
In 2021, Orbán stated his intention to sustain Hungary‘s existing asylum policy despite directives from the ECJ to amend it. The European Commission pursued further legal action in early 2022, maintaining that Hungary had not taken the essential steps to comply with the prior judgment. The ECJ‘s ruling described Hungary’s ongoing failure as “an unprecedented and extremely serious infringement of EU law,” asserting that it represents a deliberate refusal to implement a common EU policy.
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Hungary faces a significant financial penalty from the European Union's highest court due to its non-compliance with policies surrounding the treatment of migrants and asylum seekers at its borders. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has determined that Hungary must pay a fine amounting to €200 million, with an additional daily penalty of one million euros, until the required changes are fully implemented.
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In her first speech since her National Rally (RN) party won the European Parliament elections in France, populist leader Marine Le Pen has vowed to strip Islamist dual nationals of their French citizenship and deport them.
“Bi-nationals connected to Islamist ideology must be stripped of their nationality and expelled. The French who adopt the ideology of the enemy must be brought before justice and punished. The laws exist; they just need to be applied,” Le Pen vowed.
“Radical mosques will be shut down, hate preachers expelled,” she continued. “[A]ssociations connected with Salafism and the Muslim Brotherhood will be dissolved. With me, be assured that the rights of women, today challenged by the Islamist obscurantism, will be granted to all the women of France. With me, the security will not go against liberty, in any case, not against the liberty of honest people.”
President Emmanuel Macron called a snap national election after National Rally placed first in the European elections, securing 31.4 percent of the vote against 14.6 percent for Macron’s Renaissance party.
Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, believes Macron is gambling RN lacks the resources to fight another election campaign on such short notice. For a majority in the National Assembly, RN need to secure 289 seats—a significant increase from their current 88.
Macron’s stunt may be backfiring. RN is projected to win the election even if it fails to secure an outright majority. Meanwhile, a coalition of far-left parties is projected to beat Renaissance into third place.
However, the French right is also experiencing difficulties. The establishment-right Republicans and populist Reconquest are both imploding after failed attempts to establish an electoral pact with Le Pen.
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In her first speech since her National Rally (RN) party won the European Parliament elections in France, populist leader Marine Le Pen has vowed to strip Islamist dual nationals of their French citizenship and deport them.
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The neoliberal oligarchy hopes to reap profits from the aftermath of the Ukraine war by reconstructing with Middle Eastern, sub-Saharan, and South Asian migrant labor, believes Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse.
“They’ve created two major problems,” Kassam explained. “One being Ukraine and the war… the other being mass migration… So they find a solution to both of those problems: the idea of mass importation of people from South Asia, from the Arab world, and from sub-Saharan Africa into Ukraine.”
Kassam noted that Western politicians and corporations are already “divvying up” the reconstruction process despite the fact that “the war hasn’t ended, and they keep telling us that the end of the war isn’t in sight.”
“At the same time, you’ve got all these big, corporate, multinational American companies going out there and saying we want a piece of this, we want a piece of that,” he continued.
The corporations will not be going to “old boys” in Alabama or Arkansas for workers, he believes, but will resort to “cheap migrant labor,” who will be rewarded for their efforts with European citizenship. Kassam has previously predicted Ukraine will become the “first African nation in Europe.”
The National Pulse chief believes there has been a firm shift on Ukraine at Mar-a-Lago, however, with Donald Trump telling Republicans on Capitol Hill the Ukrainians are “never going to be there for us” and arguing “we should pay our own troops more” instead of funding Volodymyr Zelensky’s military.
The war in Ukraine will end with the country being flooded by migrant workers so multinationals can reap profits from its reconstruction, predicts @RaheemKassam. pic.twitter.com/0s2JwYTLbD
The neoliberal oligarchy hopes to reap profits from the aftermath of the Ukraine war by reconstructing with Middle Eastern, sub-Saharan, and South Asian migrant labor, believes Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse.
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The French far left has formed a unified ‘Popular Front’ for President Emmanuel Macron’s snap election, but the French right is in shambles. Electoral pacts between Marine Le Pen’s National Rally, the populist Reconquest party, and the establishment right Les Republicains (Republicans) are failing spectacularly.
Macron called the legislative election, which will not affect the presidency after his party was drubbed by Le Pen’s party in the European Parliament elections. Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, believes Macron and his Renaissance party were damaged by their proximity to Joe Biden in the European elections and that calling a sudden national election is an attempt to catch the populist right while it is short on resources and steal its momentum. This has seen mixed success.
THE REPUBLICANS.
Broadly, the right has failed to marshal its forces. The Republican party president, Éric Ciotti, attempted to form an electoral pact with the once-untouchable Le Pen, but the effort collapsed when the party’s political bureau mounted a coup against him. This unfolded in shambolic fashion, with Ciotti staying the removal proceedings by literally locking the plotters out of party headquarters.
They now claim he has been ousted from the party leader altogether, but he claims he retains his position and that the proceedings against him were invalid. He also says he and tens of other Republican lawmakers still intend to run alongside Le Pen.
It is a mark of how much the Overton Window has shifted that an alliance between the Republicans, once a GOP-like dominant force on the French right, and Le Pen is even being seriously discussed.
FAMILY FEUD.
A potential alliance between National Rally and Reconquest, a rival populist party founded by ‘French Tucker Carlson’ Eric Zemmour, has also unraveled. Negotiations were led by Marion Maréchal, the niece of Le Pen, who defected from the National Rally to Zemmour’s party. They are rumored to have failed because Le Pen demanded Zemmour be sidelined as the price of a pact.
Maréchal, just elected as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) on a Reconquest ticket, denounced the failure to agree to terms as a “triple mistake,” with three of the party’s other four MEPs agreeing with her. Zemmour accused her of “betrayal” and expelled her from the party.
LEFTIST UNITY.
France’s far-left parties have been better organized, uniting under a common ‘Popular Front’ banner under Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who placed third behind Macron and Le Pen in the last French presidential election.
Right-wing disunity may benefit Macron, leaving Le Pen without an overall majority in the French legislature even if, as projected, her party places first. However, far-left unity looks set to cause the globalist leader a significant headache, with Mélenchon’s Popular Front projected to beat his Renaissance party into third place.
The first round of the snap election will be held on June 30 and the second on July 7, sandwiching Britain’s snap election.
Macron, whose second term should run until 2027, has said he will not resign regardless of the results. He will retain broad control over French defense and foreign policy even if the legislature is controlled by populists and the far left, but implementing his domestic agenda will become much more difficult.
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The French far left has formed a unified 'Popular Front' for President Emmanuel Macron's snap election, but the French right is in shambles. Electoral pacts between Marine Le Pen's National Rally, the populist Reconquest party, and the establishment right Les Republicains (Republicans) are failing spectacularly.
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Joe Biden acted not just as a popularity “cooler” by appearing alongside Emmanuel Macron during the D-Day anniversary in Normandy, France, but as a kind of “hex,” according to Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse.
Discussing Macron’s disastrous performance against Marine Le Pen’s populist National Rally in the European Parliament elections with War Room host Stephen K. Bannon, Kassam stressed that Biden does not enjoy the undeserved “rock star” status of his former boss, Barack Obama, in Europe.
“There was definitely a different vibe when Obama used to go over there, and there was definitely a different way in which it translated to popularity,” Kassam recalled.
He explained that leaders across Europe, whether the notionally right-wing then-Prime Minister David Cameron in Britain or some of the more socialistic leaders on the Continent, were eager to be seen “cavorting with the ostensible leader of the free world.”
Biden, on the other hand, in Kassam’s estimation, does not just cool European leaders’ popularity but “puts a hex on it, quite frankly.”
“His very presence has probably done nothing net positive to any of these leaders he meets, with Macron included,” he added.
Appearing alongside Joe Biden in Normandy didn’t just have a cooling effect on Macron’s popularity ahead of the European elections, it put a hex on it, argues @RaheemKassam. pic.twitter.com/tXxwhFnvoT
Listen to Raheem Kassam discuss the European election results at length with Jack Posobiec here.
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Joe Biden acted not just as a popularity "cooler" by appearing alongside Emmanuel Macron during the D-Day anniversary in Normandy, France, but as a kind of "hex," according to Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse.
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Populist leader Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) party is projected to win upcoming snap elections in France. President Emmanuel Macron called the elections after his globalist Renaissance party received only half the populists’ support in elections to the European Parliament.
Polling conducted by Toluna Harris Interactive for Challenges, M6, and RTL indicates that National Rally could secure 235 to 265 seats in the French legislature, a significant increase from its current 88—although still short of the 289 needed for an outright majority.
Macron’s party may see its representation halved from 250 seats to between 125 and 155. Leftist parties might collectively hold 115 to 145 seats, running independently.
RN’s lead in the poll does not guarantee it will form a government, with the possibility of a broad coalition of establishment parties or a hung parliament still on the table.
Even if RN wins a majority, Macron will remain president for the next three years, continuing to oversee defense and foreign policy. Any RN prime minister would wield substantially less power than Macron, with the French system affording the president more executive power than other countries that retain both offices, such as Ireland.
Following Macron’s election announcement, talks of a populist coalition are in the works. RN leaders Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella met with Le Pen’s niece, Marion Maréchal, of the smaller Reconquête (Reconquest) party, to discuss a potential alliance.
The divided French left is also engaging in discussions to form a unified front.
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Populist leader Marine Le Pen's National Rally (RN) party is projected to win upcoming snap elections in France. President Emmanuel Macron called the elections after his globalist Renaissance party received only half the populists' support in elections to the European Parliament.
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Editor’s Notes
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Look, I think these are some wildly optimistic numbers but the fact they’re coming from establishment sources tells us one of two things: They’ve mustered some fake data very, very quickly to give RN a false sense of security; Macron has underestimated just how poorly his party is performing with the public
Look, I think these are some wildly optimistic numbers but the fact they’re coming from establishment sources tells us one of two things: They’ve mustered some fake data very, very quickly to give RN a false sense of security; Macron has underestimated just how poorly his party is performing with the public show more
Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, believes the European election results suggest the Overton Window is shifting on mass migration, with populists not only making progress, but the so-called “center-right” increasingly adopting populist-like stances on the issue.
Speaking to War Room host Stephen K. Bannon, Kassam compared the populist right’s shifting of the Overton Window on immigration to the left’s shifting of the Overton Window on climate change, with Britain’s Conservative Party (Tories), Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), and other parties of the establishment right now as ideologically committed to the green agenda as the political left.
“Climate change is as much dogma, is as much a religion, to [the center right] as it is to the Social Democrat parties,” he said.
In the United States, the MAGA right has already shifted the Overton Window on migration and “especially on the economy,” Kassam argued.
In the same way the left shifted the Overton Window towards the climate change agenda, populists are shifting the Overton Window against mass migration, argues @RaheemKassam. pic.twitter.com/CsrZIfWPhA
Listen to Raheem Kassam discuss the European election results at length with Jack Posobiec here.
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Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, believes the European election results suggest the Overton Window is shifting on mass migration, with populists not only making progress, but the so-called "center-right" increasingly adopting populist-like stances on the issue.
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Results in the European Parliament elections across 27 European Union (EU) member states are mostly in, with the biggest news being the shellacking of Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance Party by Marine Le Pen’s National Rally in France. With his party having received only around half as much support as Le Pen’s party, President Macron has called a snap election, commencing at the end of June—a battle the former Rothschild banker is better equipped to fight on short notice than the populist leader, given his support from the corporate media and donor class.
Despite no truly earth-shattering populist breakthrough in Europe beyond France, as discussed by Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, on Sunday, France was not the only point of interest in the European elections.
GERMANY.
The EU is often said to be driven by a Franco-German axis, and the German government was also shaken on Sunday. While the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party did not achieve as much support as Le Pen’s National Rally—which may form an alliance with the smaller right-populist Reconquest Party in the snap election, according to Marion Marechal—it placed ahead of the Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats, and far ahead of his coalition partners in the far-left Greens and neoliberal Free Democrats.
The 13.9 percent secured by the Social Democrats is its worst result in a national election since the end of the Second World War. Support for the far-left Greens has halved in five years. Before Scholz became Chancellor, the “center-right” Christian Democratic Union (CDU) under Angela Merkel had led the government for four consecutive terms, and its dire European results indicate it is likely to end up back in opposition after a single term.
The CDU, which topped the polls, is not a true conservative party, with Merkel governing as an open borders globalist despite winning support by declaring multiculturalism had “utterly failed” in 2010. Still, the party contains factions that are stronger on immigration, and these are likely to be empowered by the success of AfD, with the CDU forced to adopt more populist policies to stave off their ascent.
The German results speak to a growing divide between liberal former West Germany and ex-communist former East Germany, with the East being much more supportive of the AfD than the West.
While Macron has called a short-notice national election to try and reassert his authority after a heavy loss in the European elections, Alexander De Croo, the globalist Prime Minister of Belgium, has flat-out resigned. His Flemish Liberals and Democrats party (Open VLD) was hammered at the ballot box, crashing to 5.8 percent support.
The so-called “far-right” Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest), which sits with Le Pen’s party in the Identity and Democracy euro-group in the European Parliament, achieved modest gains to place first overall. New Flemish Alliance, a more “moderate” but still populist-leaning party, which sits with the also more “moderate” but still populist-leaning European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) euro-group, was a close second.
Both are anti-mass migration, eurosceptic parties that support breaking Belgium up into Flemish-speaking Flanders and French-speaking Wallonia, spelling trouble for a small nation that boasts outsized significance in the EU as the seat of its de facto capital of Brussels.
At first glance, the results for the populist right in Poland were not good. The national conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party, which lost office to a globalist coalition after two terms in government last year, came second. It is the first time the party has placed second in a national election, including the last national and the recent local elections, since 2014, being eked out by Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s Civic Coalition (KO) by around one percent.
However, the even more overtly populist Konfederacja (Confederation) party moved into third place, tripling its support compared to the last European election in 2019. While its share of the vote, at a little under 13 percent, may seem low overall, Confederation appears to have room to grow. It is the most popular party among Poles aged 18-29, with over 30 percent support.
Lewica (the Left), one of Tusk’s coalition allies, lost over half its support compared to 2019.
VISEGRAD PLUS.
The picture across the rest of the Visegrad—Czechia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia—was also mixed.
Hungarian leader Viktor Orban’s party placed first, but with less support than in 2019—although after four consecutive terms in office nationally, any government would likely be losing some support at this point in its life cycle.
Slovak leader Robert Fico, recovering from an assassination attempt he has blamed on the globalist opposition and corporate media linked to George Soros, gained nine points compared to 2019, but placed second overall. Fico’s coalition partners, the relatively new Republika and Hlas parties, also gained around 12.5 and 7.2 percent. Republika gained just 0.2 percent in 2019, and Hlas did not even contest the last European election.
In Czechia, populist former prime minister Andrej Babiš’s ANO party won the European elections for the third time in a row, with increased support. Perhaps more interestingly, the populist Přísaha and Motoristé (Oath and Motorists) coalition secured a surprise third-place finish, with their colorful leader Filip Turek—a former racecar driver—promising to show up to the European Parliament in a car with a “large carbon footprint.”
Austria, which is not a Visegrad member but aligns with the Central European mini-bloc when the populist right is in the ascendant in Vienna, produced perhaps the most positive results, with the “far-right” Freedom Party (FPÖ) roughly doubling its 2019 support and placing first. Party leader Herbert Kickl is already pressing Le Pen to let the AfD back into the Identity and Democracy euro-group, with the German populists having been ousted after an embarrassing gaffe involving a qualified defense of the Waffen SS. Nationally, the FPÖ wields more influence than the AfD, with the CDU-like Austrian People’s Party being willing to form coalitions with the Austrian populists in order to govern.
IBERIA.
Spain’s populist Vox party continued its rise, hitting 9.6 percent support—up from 1.6 percent in 2014 and 6.2 percent in 2019—to place third overall. The establishment right Partido Popular (PP) also made considerable gains to place first, ahead of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s Socialists. PP has worked with Vox, albeit reluctantly, at the regional level, showing that the populists can have an outsized impact on national politics.
Portugal’s version of Vox, the new Chega party, has burst onto the scene even more successfully than its Spanish counterpart, placing third on around 10 percent at its first attempt.
THE NETHERLANDS.
With the Netherlands’ longtime populist leader Geert Wilders poised to form a government following the Dutch national elections—though he is not, as POLITICOerroneously reports, the country’s prime minister—his Pary for Freedom (VVD) was being watched closely in the EU.
Although it did not place first, it greatly increased its vote share, from 3.5 percent to 17 percent.
ITALY.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy (FdI) party was perhaps the best-performing populist party in the European elections after Le Pen’s National Rally, placing first with its vote share up from 6.5 percent to around 30 percent.
While this meteoric rise suggests Meloni has staying power, it comes at the expense of Lega (League), Matteo Salvini’s populist party, which has crashed from over 34 percent—an even better result than Meloni’s—to just under 10 percent.
Meloni has also been a great disappointment in government. While the establishment feared she would be Italy’s most right-wing leader since Benito Mussolini, she has embraced legalized mass migration, achieved little on illegal immigration, and obsessed over Ukraine and sucking up to Joe Biden instead of delivering on her populist campaign platform.
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Results in the European Parliament elections across 27 European Union (EU) member states are mostly in, with the biggest news being the shellacking of Emmanuel Macron's Renaissance Party by Marine Le Pen's National Rally in France. With his party having received only around half as much support as Le Pen's party, President Macron has called a snap election, commencing at the end of June—a battle the former Rothschild banker is better equipped to fight on short notice than the populist leader, given his support from the corporate media and donor class.
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