A man can’t go very far without political ideology. And, political ideology can’t go very far without populism. But, in combination, these three things can create quite an effect, if not force.
At some point, each of the three needs a serious review, because in combination, they’re creating something that you’re going to have to live with whether you like it or not.
Pay attention, especially to the words. Because, invariably, once the activity that surrounds any one (or all three) of these starts to match up with the words, you have a reality. If you're in the protected group, you may be thinking "what's the big deal?" But, if you not...you're scared.
Does the character of the man representing the ideology of the popular group line up with what is good for humanity at large?
A populous perspective would likely say something like, "I don’t really know" or even "I don’t care". "As long as my needs are met and nothing is interfering with those, then I’m good". The problem with that mentality, not to mention the disposition, is that it fails to recognize that no group can live in isolation from other groups anymore. And, therefore, policy has to consider the needs of more than just one (your) group.
It doesn’t take much observation to note that what one group wants is still predicated on assumptions about the whole combination. In spite of our (American) fantasy about it, nothing is (or can be) isolated. No one group can really dominate another for long, without creating the very resistance it wants to foil.
Thus the problem.
The problem with populism is its inherent my-group vs your-group dynamic. The problem with political ideology is that it often is too distant from grass-roots reality, even as it claims features that appear to show that is its primary concern. The problem with the man is that without integrity for the higher good of all three things, it becomes something quite different than what it should be...what it needs to be.
Populism too often ends up running on the energy of fear and ends up in the ever-deepening ditch of quid pro quo (or worse) — missing the mark of the needs of the larger frame. Somehow we have to all live together...each giving things for the sake of the greater good.