The populist charade

The strange part is that the populists seem to take it for granted that their voters won’t notice that they’ve voted against their own interests.
Former U.K. prime minister Boris Johnson, left, former U.S. president Donald Trump, and Ontario Premier Doug Ford.

OTTAWA—Most salient of all the claims issued by populist political figures is the idea of coming to the aid of the average citizen suffering the disadvantages visited upon them by the supposedly unsympathetic elite.

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