It is not a bad thing people are "pushed towards populism". It is the appropriate natural reaction. In The UK Corbyn is populist, and Bernie Sanders in the USA, we do not have such an option high up on the menu in egalitarian little old New Zealand, shockingly, although our culture is a lot more generally populist. If the writer was referring to right-wing populism, that's what we call fake populism, it represents a set of policies popular among the upper class and petite bourgeoisie.
It is not a bad thing people are "pushed towards populism". It is the appropriate natural reaction. In The UK Corbyn is populist, and Bernie Sanders in the USA, we do not have such an option high up on the menu in egalitarian little old New Zealand, shockingly, although our culture is a lot more generally populist. If the writer was referring to right-wing populism, that's what we call fake populism, it represents a set of policies popular among the upper class and petite bourgeoisie.