National Populism Is a Monster

Bethan: Populism is a monster. We don't want to go, but the force is there. There's nothing we can do to prevent it welling up every now and again. So we have to grasp it and turn it in the right direction. Corbin failed to do that. His shadowed chancellor, John McDonald, was economically illiterate. Sanders had a relationship with Stephanie Kelton, another very good economist, but it was a very half-hearted. And I can't see that moment happening again organically. It's not going to come again because the national, the neoliberal mass media and educational institutions are wise to,. They didn't think populism was ever