When a politician is a populist all it means is they have some rapport with the disadvantaged the ordinary people who feel rightly or wrongly that they are not recognised, not heard, and don't matter. Populism is not the new  evil on the block. This issue is being used by msm  papers in arguments to discredit voters and politicians that don't support the status quo , the elites, or 1 %.. This is not about to go away until the legitimate concerns  are  addressed without more of the insulting attacks.