Wall Street has become a target of populist rage, raw material for talk-show tirades, the occasional street protest and a lot of punch lines.
Add to this the hurt inflicted on Europe's populations due to the financial crisis and stagnant growth, and populists have ready material with which to work".
Instead, marketing materials featured quotations from populist newspapers such as the Daily Mail, which compared the film to Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994).
Populists also engage in the exchange of material and immaterial favours for mass support.
In some of this material, a visceral distrust of populists, business groups, labor leaders, politicians and the media emerges, as does a sense of being unfairly under siege.
But Mr. McCrum's heart is in the newer material, his assessment of our contagious, adaptable, populist, subversive language around 2010.
Even though liberals have worked tirelessly for the material benefit of working people, the repetition of conservative populist frames over more than 40 years has had an effect.
"Some narrow-minded politicians have used Turkey as election material, and we believe this to be very wrong and very populist," Mr. Erdogan said.
Because all over the world millions of people left behind by globalisation, whose living standards have been squeezed, have been voting for populist, and often nationalist, parties - which promote policies frequently inimical to the material interests of the rich.
