Can any argument possibly be made for genuine populism?

>>2608870
Old Roman style populism was fine.

Currently populism means to a political approach where you preach to masses with flavour of the month political discourse and use the support it gives you for other means.

>>2608870
It would have to be one heck of an argument to counterbalance the historical tendency of populism to turn into totalitarian bloodshed.

>>2608870
in democracy politicians are meant to serve the people, populism is by nature intertwined with this

populism = democracy, when the elites don't get what they want

>>2608893
>old Roman style populism
With the exception of Sulla, every instance of the erosion of Republican tradition and legal political frameworks happened because of populists. Marius, Caesar, Clodius, Octavian, etc. While their ideas were valid, most populist were(and are) ambitious and lacked strict morals. Most successful populists and populist movements lead to a slow decline into authoritarianism