Shane Mage wrote:
What people are calling "populism," and spinning definitions, categories, and analyses of, is just something that for thousands of years has been described by a single, still perfectly adequate, word: *demagogy*.
is it possible to describe William Jennings Bryan -- the most famous US populist -- as a "demagogue"? No, I think his problem was fuzzy-mindedness. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
