Emily Maitlis, "Populist parties can shape shift between the right and left.. It's not an ideology.. It's a means to achieve and retain power"
We saw this with the Conservative party in our recent election where Rishi Sunak would use words like 'surrender' if people chose to 'vote' for Keir Starmer
And we see this now in the US where a former president, Trump, trying to reelect himself as president, is telling lies about the current US vice president who is trying to be elected as president, saying that she doesn't support Christmas
Countries prosper only when politics shifts from personal enrichments towards public service