The Culture Wars Are a Fake Version of Class Politics

How did we get to a situation where a mass movement of holy joes is now associated with people like liz truss in england, borris johnson are called populists. And all this is against the background of elections coming up. You've got your mid term elections,. It's to give the listeners a sense of american politics, deep american politics not just a snap shot on the talk shows. But where do these ideas come from? How does populism become coopted by various elites?