populism

*against https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-2020-president-privately-tells-confidants-that-socialism-wont-be-so-easy-to-beat

This came up because I just read something about the GOP accusing Democrats of radical proposals on health care. Obviously it's thought single-payer UHC is a radical concept, but IMO it's really not - per the norms of most (all?) other developed nations. And famously, the ACA was actually a...

According to Amitai Etzioni at The Atlantic, the liberal narrative is broken and populism is the only way out. Whatever that means. As far as I can tell this "liberal narrative" is: Really? That is the liberal narrative? Huh. I didn't realize it was so simple. I expected something...

The Republicans are pressing hard on the President to "listen to the people". People who just so happen to have all the same ideas as the Republicans. Hmm. So what am I, chopped liver? It is funny that "listening to the people" means ignoring a full half of them. And in the case of the Tea...

The other night, I heard Mitt Romney reiterate that old saw: It's not the government that makes our country great, it's the people who make it great. The American people are our strength. I say, hogwash. Now, I'm not one of those "America is the greatest nation ever" kind of people. There's...

Just a quick question: is populism always bad in a politician? I see so much disapproval of "pandering to voters" in other threads, but is this pandering always accompanied by turning their backs on them after election?

I'm adding an off-topic poll because I can. First three paragraphs in an article from the always perceptive cultural critic Thomas Frank: http://mondediplo.com/2004/02/04usa