Lucas Kunce: ‘Populism is about everyday people coming together’
by Martin Pengelly from US news | The Guardian on (#62089)
Former US Marine with a progressive take on identity and masculinity hopes Missouri Democrats will pick him as their nominee for US Senate
Lucas Kunce thinks populism has been given a bad name. It's outrageous," he says, that people call the Josh Hawleys, the Eric Greitens, the Donald Trumps of the world populist. Populism is about everyday people coming together to have power in a system that's not working for them. So do that, Josh Hawley. I mean, good Lord, what a charlatan."
Kunce is running for the Democratic nomination for US Senate in Missouri, in the fight to take the state's second seat in Washington, alongside Hawley. The primary is on Tuesday.
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