Well, that was interesting. There was a senior leadership meeting in my government and the deputy head of the Ministry came in suddenly and said,

" We're looking at our comms plan and we have realised that there is a wave of populism around the world with certain leaders being elected recently. We have to guard against this rise in populism in our own community and be ready with our communication plan."

Isn't that interesting? What does populism mean anyways? Something the citizens want? Isn't it the role of government to support that?  Who does that person think they are to dictate what is wrong and right?

Worse.... Where/when were they warned against this? Who is giving this message to our government officials??