"Populists aren’t just fantasy politicians; what they say and do can be
in response to real grievances, and can have very real consequences. But
it is important to appreciate that they aren’t just like other
politicians, with a bit more rabble-rousing rhetoric thrown in. They
define an alternative political reality in which their monopoly on the
representation of the ‘real people’ is all that matters: in Trump’s
case, an alt-reality under the auspices of the alt-right. At best,
populists will waste years for their countries, as Berlusconi did in
Italy. In the US, this will probably mean a free hand for K Street
lobbyists and all-out crony capitalism (or, in the case of Trump, maybe
capitalism in one family); continual attempts to undermine checks and
balances (including assaults on judges as enemies of the people when
they rule against what real citizens want; and life being made extremely
difficult for the media); and government as a kind of reality TV show
with plenty of bread and circuses. And the worst case? Regime change in
the United States of America." (Jan-Werner Müller na LRB)
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