Populism has a bad press, associated with demagogic, irresponsible, outdated nationalist leaders. The problem is that it has become a label that is too constricted to designate a broad and diverse phenomenon that is today painting the world's geography.

This term stops being useful when the same thing is applied to Trump as it is to Obama, writes Simon Tisdall. What we call populism today is part of a vast and heterogeneous response to the crisis of a political model, liberal democracy, which for decades constituted the sole reference, he says. The result is a growing dissatisfaction of the vast majority with respect to their elites, institutions, traditional political parties, and even democracy as a practice and as a concept.. Irruptions in politics of new leaders who present themselves as populist have manifested themselves in many ways over the last decade, he adds. From Brexit in England, Trump's America First, Modi's nationalism in India, to the red wave in Latin America or the emergence of the far right in Europe. The phenomenon took on another face in Latin America, where the demand for ancestral poverty is much more present. China, Russia, Hungary, with different modalities, respond to the search for ways out of something that is not working. They have been more effective in subordinating the richest 1% or market forces to a political logic and their national interests. China will displace the American Union as the leading economic power, and by 2035, it will have more geopolitical influence in the rest of the world, in trade and trade. Despite everything, despite everything, today the rate of homicides, child deaths, or suicides is lower in Russia than in the United States. But we have to do something so that the exit is not the option proposed by China,. Russia or India, since it sacrifices rights and freedoms that we take for granted today. It would be necessary to assume that XI Jinping, Putin, or Orbán (Hungary) enjoy broad approval beyond the fact that they are authoritarian governments that repress pluralism and freedoms.