The biggest threat to democracy is calling it populism and saying that the people should not have a choice about their rulers and their policies.

I suggest Mr. Moisi, who reveals his bias by using terms such as "virulent right wing", read Orwell's 1984 as to what happens when elites opine that they know better than the people and want to tell people what they should think, rather contribute to evidence-based decision making.

Mr. Moisi may also want to consider that it is POPULATION, not populism, that is the biggest threat to the world and the elite's focus should be on supporting economies, population control and decrease in the regions most susceptible rather than making populations higher in cold weather countries where there is higher reliance on fossil fuel consumption to support life.