Populisma regime where the people ruleis impossible because it is not clear who the people are and what they want. Populism requires the illusion of a ruler who incarnates the people but who, in reality can rule only a part of the people to the detriment of the rest. The only way populism would be possible is if the people isor rather areconceived as a set of separate individuals, each of whom governs himself or herself.
The Impossibility of Populism
By Pierre Lemieux
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