Nice to know that the writer can make a living papering over the yawning legitimacy gap that exposes the fundamental incompatibility of democracy and capitalism. 

"Populism" is a term often used by elites to disparage ideas that they don't favour. Ideas like:

• corporations and the rich should be compelled to pay their fair share of taxes, instead of being allowed to hide their wealth in off-shore tax havens
• Governments should not abet corporate manipulation of the labour market by maintaining high levels of structural unemployment while allowing temporary foreign workers to put further downward pressure on wages 
• Governments should regulate and enforce labour standards to prevent corporations from destabilizing work and creating a precarious workforce

Whether they know it or not, working people have been abandoned by governments and politicians of all stripes (including "Third Way" socialists) and thrown to the wolves. Say yes to fair societies and "no" to market fundamentalism