The Populist Delusion

Neema Parvini, "The Populist Delusion"
English | ISBN: 1922602442 | 2022 | 174 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump unleashed a wave of populism not seen in America since the Nixon era, which carried him into the presidency. Seen widely as a vindication of the people over elites, his failure to bring about any meaningful change was then seen as an aberration, a departure from a natural state where the people are sovereign and their representatives govern by their consent. This is the populist delusion