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Populist ideas may surprise you in next year’s elections

President Uhuru Kenyatta's motorcade, Parliament, 2018. [Beverlyne Musili, Standard]

This is “them against us” season. In America, Trump’s shocking 2016 win rode on a wave that demonised “them”; liberals, accused of “contaminating America’s values” and allowing “brown-skinned immigrants and Muslims” into “our America”.

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