when Hillary Clinton was interviewed by the Guardian newspaper in November 2018 on the topic of how to combat populism, her first suggestion was to curb immigration, because that is what ‘lit the flame’. Her view was not that immigration was bad, rather that it was helping the right and must be jettisoned if the left is to be seen as on the side of the man on the street. Clinton’s frequency was well and truly scrambled if her solution to populism is playing into the hands of the right by mimicking its tactics, rather than challenging it because they are objectively wrong.
