Date: December 23rd, 2024 7:39 PM Author: Here's the thing about Tortas
The most novel claim populists make is that they alone truly represent the people. Since in democracies only the people should have political power, and since allegedly only the populists represent the people, it follows that the populist party should have all political power to itself. If some party other than the populists wins elections, it does not mean that this rival party won the people's trust and is entitled to form a government. Rather, it means that the elections were stolen or that the people were deceived to vote in a way that doesn't express their true will. It should be stressed that for many populists, this is a genuinely held belief rather than a propaganda gambit.