They also mean usurpers in the sense that they did’t come to power through the usual channels.
I mean, it is kinda stretching it matching it up with populism, but the usual channel was through a popular uprising, and it’s why Plato thought democracies necessarily “devolved” into tyrannies. The rabble get a taste, and because they’re ignorant, easily-swayed rabble they support this asshole tyrant’s claim to power. Otherwise, it generally had neither positive or negative connotations, while today it’s universally used negatively.
Can even find a hundred articles making the Plato connection with trump, when we’d mainly just call him a populist.
It basically meant someone who derived their power from the masses instead of the ruling elites iirc.
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They also mean usurpers in the sense that they did’t come to power through the usual channels.
I mean, it is kinda stretching it matching it up with populism, but the usual channel was through a popular uprising, and it’s why Plato thought democracies necessarily “devolved” into tyrannies. The rabble get a taste, and because they’re ignorant, easily-swayed rabble they support this asshole tyrant’s claim to power. Otherwise, it generally had neither positive or negative connotations, while today it’s universally used negatively.
Can even find a hundred articles making the Plato connection with trump, when we’d mainly just call him a populist.