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Originally Posted by Pierre
He won a massive majority…makes him populist against the established Tories.
The point I’m making is that it is a useless term.
The whole point about politics is to be popular.
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Yes, but I think there is a difference between being popular and being a populist. A populist is someone whose politics is about defining themselves as on the side of the people against the elites. The elites change depending on which side you're on. Corbyn would define them as CEOs and the wealthy more than Farage would, for example, but it's the elites that are the problem.
Not every politician frames politics that way. Both main parties had a lot of people who were more technocratic and saw politics as an act of administration rather than taking on entrenched elites. Sunak, May and even Cameron, to an exten,t wouldn't be called populists.