Because the people on the ground, facing the consequences of untrammeled immigration with no assimilation (in a welfare state) and of very expensive fuel are for them for a REASON. It’s not unthinking. If he’s a “populist” he’s a very weird definition of one. Or not one at all...
I have yet to see a politician who doesn't make promises he or she has no intention of keeping after the elections. So, in this sense, almost everyone is a populist. Oddly enough, Trump shouldn't be counted among them under this definition, because he has been sticking to his campaign...
Consequences of populism under this definition are also predictable and familiar: hollowing out of republican institutions and checks on power, adulation of the people by the leader making generous gifts to “the people”, and adulation of said leader too, destruction of proper processes etc. It w...
The idea that such accommodations will draw negative attention to transgender kids is frankly silly. Do we really think kids don't already know which of their peers is transitioning? I am not arguing that the transgender people's quest for using the facilities they prefer is a trivial one, ...