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Both left-wing Utopian populists and right-wing common-good populists are explicitly anti-Enlightenment non-liberals. Trying to identify some core difference based on intentions is not very productive. Authoritarians from both directions have historically stacked bodies like cord wood. Good luck on the newsletter. Populism certainly is one of the main issues of the day.

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As much as I oppose populism due to it's false notion of people power, there is a real and concrete reason class focused politics of left wing populists win over so many people. Power is determined by our socio-economic system: capitalism, class society.

The problem with left-wing populists is that they propose to solve issues like inequality, wage-slavery, etc. by participating in class society (wining elections, becoming president, or participating in the state) rather than seeking to abolish it alltogether.

Also, Bernie is far from a populist.

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Clearly, this writer—Shikha Dalmia, is it?—commits the sin of speculation, not to mention, seems thoroughly steeped (and stained) in the trendy “anti-colonial” hatred so prevalently hurled by today’s spoiled, woke SJWs at America; at its stalwart, working middle class; and at its taxpaying majority of European ancestry. Disingenuous fawning doesn’t suit you, princess.

Poor, heroic, ragtag Gandhi! Only a Gandhi-style “Quit India”–type of movement can be considered legit, eh? An “alien” power had denied Indians “self-rule,” you see, therefore disenfranchising them from being able to actively and productively participate in self-governing.

Soooo, I’m thinking you’re NOT a parent or small-business owner. I guess you’ve never been banned from shared digital public squares by Big Nanny Big Tech billionaires simply for expressing a contrary opinion? And let me guess: you loathe a taxpayer’s right to self-defense; to keep and bear arms with a big bad tool that goes BANG, yeah? Just another leftist operative cum “writer” who fails to recognize that the so-called enemy without is today *quite significantly* America’s “enemy within”—numbering in the multimillions at last count and rapidly metastasizing.

Yes. Well. So much for “alien power,” huh?

How DARE you minimize the dangers this DNC-installed puppet-monarch Biden and his Democrat cabal have inflicted on virtually an entire nation’s legal, fiscal and economic infrastructure! The Canadian truckers’ peace convoy sure looked like a popular uprising to me! The toiling truckers and the mere citizens who joined them in freezing temps aptly demonstrated that popular AND populist movements are not only warranted but also absolutely essential. Humans RESIST to remain free. Trudeau then weaponized Canada’s emergency powers to punish (and rob) these peaceful, instrumental working citizens. Was dictator Trudeau’s unjustified tactics NOT an example of “an illicit power…ruling in explicit violation of the will of those it governs”?! These feckless COLONIALS (your word) Biden and Trudeau, have actively and intently disenfranchised MILLIONS (if not the MAJORITY) of citizens with their insatiable, psychotic need to dominate and greedily commandeer the autonomy, wealth, and power, that rightly belongs to their nation’s people.

So what do YOU call it, dear Dalmia, when an advanced, homogeneous nation of intelligent individuals who are culturally united is *strategically diluted* with third-world foreigners, such that the nation becomes unrecognizable? Such that it becomes FUNDAMENTALLY transmogrified? (I believe this is a Ukrainian concern right now, no? The Russian enemy *without* has leveraged its soldiers who were already in place *within*.) French sociopath elitist Macron also encouraged deluges of these “enemies without” directly INTO the paradise of Paris! Hordes of Mid-East foreigners quickly destroyed the most cherished Parisian traditions, laws, and culture—often via thuggery and intimidation—and replaced them with their own. Parisians were betrayed by the Macron traitor within, who encouraged the swarthy stone-age “enemy without” to implant and metastasize itself quickly and deftly within.

Apparently, during Dalmia’s trite navel-gazing there was scant consideration that a populist movement is as *absolutely legitimate* as a popular one when an external enemy is allowed to overrun a well-established territory (and the civil rights of its legal citizens) to therefore become a dangerous internal one. King Biden cares not that these trespassing foreigners potentially jeopardize the welfare of every single US citizen, especially our most vulnerable children and elderly.

But like us, bet Gandhi would have.

As with your Indian hero, Gandhi, Donald J. Trump sprung from the fiery negligence of elitist tyranny. The American taxpaying majority has been clobbered by Democrat criminality run amok for decades! Our US Constitution is foundational. Those who attempt to partisanly impugn or destroy our cherished Bill of Rights becomes our enemies, whether domestic OR foreign, whether within OR without. Our COLONIAL ancestors fought long, bloody battles to earn our “right of self-rule.” No entity GAVE it to us. So before disparaging the legitimacy of populist movements (“pathology” indeed!), why not get off your armchair, you silly faux warrior, and attempt an iota of humility and compassion for we who are besieged FROM WITHIN by those who should have long ago been CAST OUT.

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