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Populism is, I've found, typically a label to accuse a democratic politician of being a demagogue. It carries the connotation of appealing to the baser elements of human nature instead of higher ideals, with tragic results likely. Therefore Trump's anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim rhetoric is...

The Clement Atlee of 1935 tried to disarm Britain unilaterally, as I recall, and the popularity of this among certain portions of the British electorate is a reason why Baldwin and Chamberlain were so determined to keep rearmament minimal and rely on the League of Nations and diplomacy to keep...