Populism says that politicians ‘run’ a country. They never have. They have authority, but others with…

Populism says that politicians ‘run’ a country. They never have. They have authority, but others with expertise run the country. Symbolic sod-turning is as close to ‘running’ anything politicians should be allowed to be. Covid would be over by now if we’d remembered this. https://t.co/XrdE30ACJc