> Populism is perhaps best understood as a rhetorical style. Even it's "best"
> left-leaning varieties, it's a framework where society is divided into two
> contending groups "the people" and "the elite." This implies two things:
> One, that old class identities, forms of particularism, have to be broken
> down. There is no room for a working class with interests sometimes
> counterpoised to middle class or "petit bourgeois" elements—they are all
> "the people." I'd rather have a labor party with socialist politics...
>
Exactly. My point.
FC