Populism

Catherine Rampell does a nice sketch of the rise of populism and the betrayal of right wing populists by the current GOP.  Essential to this - and Rampell catches it - is that populism is ultimately on some forms about scapegoating.  Even the populist left is guilty of this, in that much of their thinking is simplistic on many issues.  The right is not only guilty of scapegoating, but their targets are inevitably those who can least defend themselves.