From this article:
"At launch she talked a streak of anti-elitist rhetoric that was taken
seriously for a few days, until the punditry took the temperature of
her populism and declared to it be the right kind: the fake kind, the
purely strategic kind. The congoscenti even seemed to applaud Clinton for sounding enough like Elizabeth Warren
to preclude the necessity of the actual Elizabeth Warren running for
president, Warren being the wrong kind of populist, the real kind. The punditry should embrace the real idealists and hammer the fakes.
Instead we get this sleazy process in which the fakes are called smart
and yet still allowed to market themselves as the real thing. It would
be nice, for once, if we did things in reverse."
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