POPULIST STRATEGY NOTES #1
POPULIST STRATEGY NOTES #1 BETWEEN THE PATHOCRACY ROCK AND A MANAGERIAL CLASS HARD PLACE The Evolved Psyche From early in the history of this substack a problem has been identified for the success of populism in the age of managerial liberalism. Populism has been described as a manifestation that the ruled have lost faith in their rulers; populism aspires to a re-foundation, either in the forms or persons (or both) that rule the society. A unique set of challenges though confront a populist insurgency under the rule of the managerial class. One of these is that, through their unique class ventriloquism and their effectiveness at executing the “ revolution within the form ,” populism’s traditional remedy to corrupt or sclerotic rulers, the imposition of a more radical democracy, has become the Trojan Horse by which the managerial class, rather than suffering setback in its hegemony, actually consolidates and deepens its rule. That’s bad enough, but as also discussed earlier o...