Answered from Was populism worth it? · Today, Explained · 2026-11-03
Jonathan Chait of The Atlantic told Today, Explained that populism is a style of politics, not a fixed ideology. It presents political problems as zero-sum conflicts with a single clear and easy solution that would help the people, or the people a given populist considers legitimate, and claims that a self-interested elite is blocking that solution.
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