| But the elitism and the populism in this claim are less far apart than they might seem. |
| Statute is too often knee-jerk, headline-led populism with predictably tyrannous consequences for electorally irrelevant minorities. |
| What exactly is equally valid with sleaze, populism, and unloveliness, I wonder? |
| Pure populism it was, and I thought Australians would see through it big time, which they have. |
| By contaminating the political culture with persuasive but ruinous ideas, populism depraves all electorally-sensitive governments. |
| The authoritarian populism of Thatcher and Reagan were two such successful employments of neo-liberalism by politicians on the right. |
