Instapundit links to a
Foreign Affairs article by Francis Fukuyama, of "death of history" fame, who provides a cruelly accurate definition of this year's hot political category: populism.
“Populism” is the label that political elites attach to policies supported by ordinary citizens that they don’t like.
Do I detect a whiff of snark in his definition? He continues:
There is of course no reason why democratic voters should always choose wisely, particularly in an age when globalization makes policy choices so complex. But elites don’t always choose correctly either, and their dismissal of the popular choice often masks the nakedness of their own positions.
Hence: Trump and Sanders, both only too willing to declare the elites' Emperor jaybird naked.
