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No, good policy that benefits a wide group of constitutes instead of a few key donors is how you counter populism.

Lobbying makes it worse bc the response (populism) will have credible grievances, which is why you will see populist candidates all over the west.

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so-called “deliverism” as a cure to populism has empirically not worked very well.

actual material changes do very little to defuse populist cultural moments in modern wealthy societies

Source?

Making your people first world is extremely good at defeating "populist cultural moments" like communism, unless of course you consider may 68 in France of evidence of the contrary.

I'll even go further and claim that Occupy Wall-Street died because the US economy boomed from 2012 on (return to embarrassed millionaire)

The US is already first world. OWS was much smaller than the media might make you think - the US economy really only started booming 2017,2018,2019.

https://democracyjournal.org/arguments/the-death-of-deliveri...

This comment comes of as over-intellectual incoherent internet babble. I do not even know what you are saying.

because I used the word 'deliverism'?

HN is a safe space from anti-intellectualism, thankfully

I've seen this analysis before, but I'm really not sure what it's supposed to mean beyond "modern populist movements want changes I don't consider to be material". There's no big mystery here - Denmark successfully defused their populist movement by delivering what populists say are their biggest priorities, stricter immigration policies and an increased focus on small towns (https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/denmark-europea...).

There is no big mystery; I believe it is proposed as that because the politicians just want to act in their own self-interest or that of lobbyists and not those of their constituents.

Even bringing up immigration policies leads to vitriol online, and all I can do is think "to whose advantage is this really"..

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