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It depends on your definition of elites. "Deep state" and "drain the swamp" is about attacking government elites but the same movement promotes less regulation
by downWidOutaFite 3y ago
It depends on your definition of elites. "Deep state" and "drain the swamp" is about attacking government elites but the same movement promotes less regulation and lower taxes for business elites.
- tptacek 3y agoIt doesn't matter who the elites are; it only matters that some notion of them exists. The key to populism is the claim that some political platform (left, right, religious or secular) represents the manifest will of the people in its entirety, and that any opposition to that platform is corrupt or elite-driven. If you're looking to understand the term by its opposition, the antonym of "populism" is "pluralism".
- jjjjj55555 3y ago> represents the manifest will of the people in its entirety, and that any opposition to that platform is corrupt or elite-driven It's funny how this starts to sound more and more like just Marxism.
- tptacek 3y agoNo, Marxism is an political platform. Populism obviously isn't Marxism; there is right-populism (which is currently the most popular form).