Populist landslides always lead to triumphalism. Because our entire understanding of politics is elections,…

Populist landslides always lead to triumphalism. Because our entire understanding of politics is elections, we think these victories mean the complete opposite to what they actually mean. Broken societies have populist landslides. Winning those elections is a hospital pass. 1/4 https://t.co/qXG9Qb0YYH

The winner comes to power on the promise to fix the broken society. But populist leaders wouldn’t know how to boil an egg. Thus ushering in the inevitable collision between the reality (nothing gets fixed) and the promises. 2/4

Once the public or crowd recognise this, the populist leader is toast. Go look at what has happened to *every* great populist political movement, and its leader. The retribution is brutal. I still bet that Trumpism will be over by the mid-terms. 3/4

Everything his cadre of loons is taking as ultimate victory is actually a fast-track to their own destruction. If we could stop mistaking elections for reality, this would all be obvious. But we’re trapped in the team sports bubbles. /end