The vote in Brent East, the North London district once held by the city's populist current mayor, Ken Livingstone, was the first since the United States and Britain joined forces to invade Iraq six months ago.
Brexit is part of a populist-nationalist current that will make it harder to achieve effective policies and management of practical affairs in an interdependent world.
Similarly, the current populist right originated among the articulate spokespeople and well-funded institutions that emerged in the 1970s, long before the current crisis began.
The current populist president Jokowi has inherited a major problem.
Have he and the website prompted the Tories' current populist turn?
"It's an antiquated, populist reaction to current headlines," said Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld, associate dean and adjunct professor at the Yale School of Management.
He is also going to have to work hard to win over suburban independents, who are less economically populist than his current supporters.
A sea change in social attitudes that could have profound effects on politics and the world economy is under way.The rich are certainly not the only targets in the current populist backlash.
Although he favors raising taxes on the rich, while also lowering some corporate rates, Kerrey disdains the current populist rhetoric that pervades the left and praises the generosity of the rich.
And yet none of this matters right now, because the current populist strategy isn't going to work, isn't going to make the populist's ideas or the Republican Party more popular, and has marched the entire party into a cul-de-sac from which, it seems, only the uncourageous dealmaking K Street-friendly leadership types can rescue it.
