| He claims the lack of leadership in the business and political world is due to an obsession with populism, which is disenabling the whole system. |
| Pure populism it was, and I thought Australians would see through it big time, which they have. |
| But the elitism and the populism in this claim are less far apart than they might seem. |
| It's fueled by a long legacy of anti-intellectualism and right-wing populism that focuses anger on liberal eggheads. |
| Statute is too often knee-jerk, headline-led populism with predictably tyrannous consequences for electorally irrelevant minorities. |
| The authoritarian populism of Thatcher and Reagan were two such successful employments of neo-liberalism by politicians on the right. |
