The contemporary resurgence of populism in politics feels a lot like the description of democracy in the "Wrong lizard won"-passage. You can read it here: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/162557-it-comes-from-a-very...
Hearing about Roman populism makes me think it's better than Nobel rule. At least occasionally the masses get a policy that benefits them. For instance the Trump tax cuts and Obamacare took money from the 10% and gave it to the masses. (I'm a bitter 10%er that thinks it's time for the 10% to unite)
So what's wrong with populism? The class warfare?
Is the actual issue demagogry like Trump and Bernie that have fake policy that wins the emotional and uneducated Masses?
The kind of populism that promises easy answers by oversimplifying the issues is a problem.
At the same time, I often feel that there is a deep flaw in modern "moderate/centrist" thinking in not trying hard enough to do the things that would actually be popular, instead coming up with overly technocratic and ultimately flawed arguments for maintaining a status quo that provides bad results for a large fraction of the population.
As a politician, how would you call for getting out of that without being branded as the bad kind of populist?
Actually, thank you for that description. It's the best summary I've ever read and cleared up a lot of my confusion about the term.