Thus, liberals’ belief that they have only to expose the populists’ corruption to discredit them is a vain hope. They also have to show that for the vast majority of citizens, clientilism yields no benefits, and that a lack of democratic accountability, a dysfunctional bureaucracy, and erosion of the rule of law will in the long run hurt the people – all of them.
因此，自由派的信念——只要曝光民粹主义者的腐败，就能让他们名誉扫地——完全是徒劳的。他们还必须证明，对绝大部分公民来说，裙带主义根本无法带来好处，而缺乏民主问责、功能紊乱的官僚主义和被腐蚀的法治精神会在长期伤害人民——所有人民。