Populism, Conventional Wisdom, and Doug Ford

Foreign Policy
July 17, 2020

Populist movements are widely castigated as nativist, racist, and xenophobic. Yet Ontario Premier Doug Ford has crafted a brand of politics which is pragmatic, centrist and, well, popular. Writing in Foreign Policy, Simon Lewsen argues that Ford’s rhetoric scrambles the left-right divide and his electoral success offers lessons for politicians elsewhere.

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