Image copyright Reuters Image caption Was the Brexit vote a popular uprising against the political and business elite? The man who was prime minister last Christmas and isn"t this Christmas thinks he knows why.
“I stand here as a great optimist about how we can combat populism. It may seem odd that I am so optimistic, because after all the rise of populism cost me my job.”
So said David Cameron recently, on the lecture circuit for the defeated, at DePauw University in Indiana in the United States.
The man who is president of the United States this Christmas and won"t be for much longer has opined on the subject too.
“This whole issue of populism. Maybe somebody can pull up in a dictionary the phrase populism. But I am not prepared to concede the notion that some of the rhetoric that has been popping up is populist,” Barack Obama said recently.
OK then, Mr President, let"s take you up on that dictionary idea.
“There is no definition of populism. It is like liberalism o..
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