[lacey]

Around the time of Occupy Wall Street I was predicting that we would either see populists start winning elections and/or a violent uprising sometime in the next couple decades.

I still think we’ll continue headed in that direction until we start to heal some of the fractures in the US and start to find some common ground and work toward common benefit rather than strictly towards short-term selfish interests.

[miluge]

Each country will experience what you said, even both sometimes or one being the cause of the other.

Look at France with the Gilets Jaunes ( uprising ) and the soon to be followed populists winning the elections ( I sincerely hope not ).

Altho' I don't think capitalism is at cause here but definitely part of the problem and the solution.

[AndyMcConachie]

The term 'populist' used to just mean popular. It was synonomous with democracy. We've somehow repurposed it to mean something that's closer to authoritarian and bigoted.