He seems not to expect change in the "populist" element in the current media landscape. The only policy opinions/spitballs I read in the interview were banning

He seems not to expect change in the "populist" element in the current media landscape. The only policy opinions/spitballs I read in the interview were banning political advertising on social media and public support for independent journalism, and he didn't give the impression that he thought either would go very far. It seems like paradigm shifts happen more often than we think. They always surprise me, at least (BLM, same sex marriage, legalized pot in the US). Reading between the lines, I think he's saying that barring a paradigm shift, this new kind of "anti-democratic populism" is going to be around for a while.