The journalist Arwa Mahdawi calls this ‘populist correctness’, which she describes as ‘the smearing and silencing of points of view by labelling them “elitist” – and therefore at odds with the will of the people and the good of the country’. She cites as examples the rhetoric around ‘remoaners’ (British people who voted to remain in the EU and ‘moan’ about the result), which can be summed up as ‘the people have spoken, so the rest of you should shut up’.
