The ‘voice of the people’ isn’t a voice. It’s a simple count of votes. The actual voices of the people you…

The ‘voice of the people’ isn’t a voice. It’s a simple count of votes. The actual voices of the people you can hear in a stadium. Incoherent noise. Elections squash the noise into a content-free number. Populism uses the number to brand itself as ‘the will of the people’. https://t.co/x5RhQ6jJAa