Mick Clifford: Why these days does the term 'common sense' translate as right-wing populism?
Apart from the bread and butter of politics, culture war issues like immigration, climate, free speech and the media, the operation of the State, gender are all viewed through this prism of common sense espoused by populists
US president Donald Trump espouses right-wing populism Picture: AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson
This week a political defection sank without a trace. Michael Sheehan, a long-time councillor in Wexford, joined Independent Ireland. Sheehan had once been in Fianna Fáil, but went out on his own in recent years.
He told his local newspaper his former party was not the organisation he signed up for in 1997.
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