Re:How the World Went from Post-Politics to Hyper-Politics
by jessaustin on Friday February 04, 2022 @08:28AM
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Your definition fits the circumstances of most places I've lived. (Not Singapore, which had its own particular democratic shortcomings...) Can you give us another example of a "democracy" that does not qualify as populist?
That's not really what populism means. The essence of populism is deep distrust for deliberative mechanisms and, more generally, for any efforts at endowing political decision making with desirable qualities such as intellectual depth, moderation, nimble adaptation to circumstances, compromise among opposing views, etc. etc. Populism is, in many ways, a clear failure mode of politics.