Populism! It’s a word on everyone’s lips but is it an unspeakable political horror or our bright hope for the future? Well, the ‘progressive’, ‘liberal’ Left know what’s what and are ever ready to enlighten us, in their predictably hyperbolic and doctrinaire style, that populism is nothing but a ‘far-right’ festival of anti-immigrant hate, racial prejudice, and ‘transphobia’ mixed with economic nationalist naiveté, just one goose-step away from fully-fledged fascism.