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It seems that these populist ideologies are built on the shared values of chauvinism, revanchism, and various maladaptive psychological copings to the usual problems and hardships of (modern) life.

And it seems that the ends of the spectrum exhibit different manifestations, as in the current "left" uses ideology for purity testing and the "right" uses it for loyalty testing. (I wanted to link to some details on this, but I can't find it now. :/)



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