In his masterful survey of populism, Jan-Werner Müller takes up cudgels against those who argue populism is democratic. A true populist is not just opposed to the elites, he is also an enemy of pluralism. Without a plural society democracy loses its foundation. The populist never says ‘We are the 99 per cent,’ as Occupy Wall Street did during its Zuccotti Park protests. The populist claims to speak exclusively for the 100 per cent. Only they can know the identity of the true people. The
