Pithy insight that future politics will be either left or right, but in either case populist.  Are we to believe government of any stripe, connected to the people they serve, is a bad thing?  

The reality of it is unlikely though.  How many revolutions all across the world have been wrought to bring government that is for the people; by the people?  How many of those revolutions have achieved that?  How many have stayed true to that principle vs the number that have quickly dissolved into tin-pot dictatorships, often worse than the regimes they toppled?

On a slightly different, but familiar note, why would the Globe publish an article about populism, under a headline that attempts to smear all conservative thought as being represented by Trump and the Ford Bros. clown show?