Populism is the result of global economic failure

Basically: neoliberalism is shit and everyone hates it.<p>People who are deeply invested in this ghastly status-quo quake at the prospect of the proles finally demanding a less insane mode of economy, hence all the blithering about populism.

This is the same argument left academics have been using to excuse the repeated failure of electorates to vote for socialism for a century.<p>It&#x27;s not a new argument. And it nicely avoids left wing thought ever having to take responsibility for its own electoral failures.

I see Donald Trump and Brexit more as a protest against the status quo--which does not mean that the entire system is terrible. It could just mean that people want reforms that benefit the public good and not just some Senator&#x27;s home state.

I find it extremely amusing when one side bashes the other for being anti intellectual and then goes on to bash economists. Anyway, I stopped reading at wage slave, what a load of crap.

Honestly this is a terrible article. I don&#x27;t know why these &quot;journalists&quot; have such a hard time stepping out of their bubble. Ask a trump supporter it&#x27;s great for me but it blows my mind how ignorant these cosmopolitans are. I just hope they keep their head in the sand so we can get another 4 years

Populism is the failure of compulsory education and the beginnings of the fall of the 20th century western nation-state. The system favours the more-popular over the objectively-superior, and the biased, ancient mass schooling makes that the rule instead of the exception. We&#x27;ll have to abolish nations and any sort of tribalism---how sophisticated might it be---or it&#x27;ll decay by itself hurting everybody until it disappears.