22 February

We (mistakenly) think democracy = what’s popular, wins. ‘Majority rules’. It doesn’t mean that, it never has. That’s populism. Populism always ends the same way. Leaders promise people to only do what’s popular. But like anybody in business knows, that’s the most fickle of beasts. What’s popular can shift multiple times per day. Populists always end up literally or figuratively hanged, as Mussolini found out, as the crowd moves on to some new popular thing.