Pretty gaslighting for people to shit on populism when they're creating the environment for populism to exist. Populism is a form of democracy. Just because some people don't like it, doesn't delegitimize it. The author. Pretty sure he's talking about Soros. Super inconsistent, but not surprising as these people are inherently dishonest and only care to achieve their goals by any means necessary.

Nationalist Majoritarians vs. Liberals

It is too simplistic to dismiss these nationalist movements as merely “populist.” They generally are populists in the sense that they claim to speak for “the people” against elites, simplicity against complexity, and promise to give people what they want, not what is good for them. But their movements have a stronger ideological core that is quite distinct from the left-wing populism of Podemos, Syriza, Alán García or Evo Morales. This goes beyond a difference in the target of their ire, which, for left wing populists is the rich; for right-wing populists it’s often foreigners. Anti-semitic populism casts the Jews as both.(6)

(6) National populists don’t limit themselves to targeting Jews, but the characteristics they attack – living in cities; not having deep links to a single place or nation; remoteness from the common man achieved through education – include many that used to be attributed to Jews by anti-Semites in the first half of the 20th century.