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There are only three ways to beat a populist:

* Abolish democracy (only works preemptively, abolishing democracy while they're in charge would obviously not work).

* Wait for them to die and hope they don't teach what they know to a successor.

* Learn from them and speak to some fraction of their core even more persuasively than they do.

You don't defeat a populist by simple virtue of being right.



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