Europe

Does “populist” have a coherent definition? I don’t use the term. It seems to recently have come to mean: “right-wing politician who claims to be against the ‘elites.’” They aren’t, of course: it’s kayfabe. They answer to factions of capitalist class, just as the neoliberal politicians they hope to replace do.

“Populism” seems to be a liberal construction, meaning a bourgeois one. It gives off “tyranny of the majority” vibes. God forbid the majority—the working class—should ever get real political power.