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Message: <blockquote data-quote="refineryworker05" data-source="post: 2907015" data-attributes="member: 66082">No it doesn't, the republican platform has nothing to do with populism.Trump is not a populist.  He has an exclusionary message.The national republican agenda of income tax cuts, corporate tax cuts, de-regulation for the benefit of the industries that are being regulated are all very unpopular.The only somewhat popular elements of the republican agenda are the parts that are exclusionary to certain groups of Americans that conservative voters hate.That's not really a populist agenda though since even a lot of those things aren't popular with the public at large.</blockquote>