He has lost his momentum

Absolutely.

or if he wins, he gets Turkey thrown out of NATO

He doesn't have the same support

That's the problem with riding the wave of populism

Is that it's incredibly difficult to get off of it

Without the wave just dumping you

He was riding the wave of religion

Populism is a good tool as long as you have actual policy behind it

^^

You *should* be a populist

Yeah.

Exactly.

nah

but you should be a populist liberal, conservative

you shouldn't *just* be a populist.

he was riding the wave of religion

And he fell of the wave.

of course

I'll concede to that condition

Now sometimes people define populist as being "changing your opinion to whatever the majority wants"

That kind of populism is bad

aye

well, assuming the populace has bad opinions

@Deleted User >never great
We had **16 empires** you cretin

@franti
Yeah, the fact the media decided to use this to hurt him is disgusting

@Ruggwain "empires"

"16"

If your form of populism is simply opposed to Elitism, you are on good grounds. Care about the people, not the rich assholes

If you use religion to rule

you're a weak figure

A weak ruler.

And you should stop ruling

Immediately.

Off the top of my head

Goturk, Ghaznavid, Seljuk, Ottoman were the "core" Turkish Empires

And a ton of of other countries had turkish dynasties