Umbrella movements can contain people with sharply different motives. Some supporters may sincerely want onshoring, industrial jobs, and restored economic security, while others use the same language to justify exclusion or personal power. This dual use recurs across ideological camps and countries. The useful distinction is between a face-value policy grievance and actors who appropriate it for unrelated aims. Populist slogans therefore do not reveal whether everyone repeating them means the same thing.
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Political umbrella movements can contain competing motives
A modern political aside explains why people using the same populist language may be pursuing very different ends.