. Mr Fico, we kept saying, was a populist. This much we knew. But I thought it prudent to check the definition of populism. The Chambers dictionary has a populist as: “A person who believes in the right and ability of the common people to play a major part in government.” This feels disappointingly broad to me, if only insomuch as you can’t imagine a politician saying the opposite – that they didn’t believe in the right and ability of the common people to govern themselves.
The left-winger booted this definition into my penalty area: “I’d say broadly a political project which appeals to the broader populace on the basis their interests aren’t only different from a defined elite group but on a collision course with them.” Storming down the middle of the pitch, one of the centrists said, “Generally a movement setting up the will of the people versus a corrupt elite.” The other said, “An ideology and methodology which views society and politics through the lens of a historic battle between the virtuous downtrodden masses and the evil elite in which progress depends upon the total defeat of the latter.”
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