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Podcast: Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill
Episode: 378: What is populism, is it a good thing, and what about Javier Milei?
Description: The boys drink and review Winter Storm, "a Category 5 ale" from Heavy Seas, then discuss populism in the U.S., and the career of Javier Milei.
Most politicians want to appear as an ordinary, regular person -- at least when they're campaigning -- but a "populist" adds a critical element of a contrast between the people and the elite establishment, whom they ridicule or demonize.
Populism might become more prevalent when there's more of a disparity between the rulers and the common man.
Populism is not left-wing or right-wing. Donald Trump is a...