Krugman writes: "Message to those in the news media who keep calling Donald Trump a 'populist': I do not think that word means what you think it means."
Workers observe President Trump during a speech last week at a steel plant in Illinois. (photo: Tom Brenner/The New York Times)
Stop Calling Trump a Populist
03 August 18
essage to those in the news media who keep calling Donald Trump a “populist”: I do not think that word means what you think it means.
It’s true that Trump still, on occasion, poses as someone who champions the interests of ordinary working Americans against those of the elite. And I guess there’s a sense in which his embrace of white nationalism gives voice to ordinary Americans who share his racism but have felt unable to air their prejudice in public.
But he’s been in office for a year and a half, time enough to be judged on what he does, not what he says. And his administration has been relentlessly anti-worker on every front. Trump is about as populist as he is godly — that is, not at all.
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