"The Contradictory Nature of Populism"
“People displaced by globalization and technical change are distressed about not sharing in the benefits of an expanding economy and by their government’s failure to do more about it, leaving them susceptible to the siren song of populism. But their views are also informed by an ideology that tells them government is the problem, not the solution.”
Source: page 181 from The Populist Temptation, Barry Eichengreen (Oxford University Press, 2018)