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A Paradox of Populaism
Popular reaction is anti democratic to some degree. At least it looks to a system that was not democratic and wants to achieve, through democracy, the same results as that. It's a paradox, in a way, because populaism has to look back to authoritarianism to at least to a certain degree. We are at the stage when authoritarian rule that claimed to represent nobody, didn't make any point, or didn't making any an had no calms about saying that it does not represent the people. But we have that, that er, that sort of mind at which has had its evident results.