Ph.D.; I teach college kids to be atheist, Marxist, Antifa, BLM, baby-killing, flag-burning, America-hating commie terrorists. ¡Viva Chávez!
“Right-wing populism” is no more a form of populism than slave-owners using abolitionist rhetoric to promote slavery would be a form of abolitionism.
When the problem is the existence of cages and chains to begin with, the solution isn’t keeping the cages and chains in place but making them a tad larger, slightly longer—the solution is abolishing cages and chains.
Saying that black lives matter is not saying that only black lives matter. And if all lives matter, then black lives, which are a proper subset of all lives, also matter.
Huge numbers of Democrats after the 2016 election believed that Russia played some decisive role in getting Trump elected, up to and including believing that Trump wasn’t legitimately elected.
The powers that maintain the status quo were happy to support Dr. King’s racial justice advocacy, since these powers knew how easily that advocacy could be sanitized, repurposed, and folded back into the status quo.