Any populism your populist can do mine can do better; mine can do populism much better than yours.

Sir, Gillian Tett, when discussing populism and populists writes, “Nor is it obvious that Mr Trump will lose in 2020. If you look at recent opinion polls, these offer as much reason for alarm as for cheer.” “Is the populist wave in the west here to stay?” September 14.

Clearly populism is in the eye of the beholder. For instance, if Hugo Chavez had hosted “The Populist Apprentice” he might very well have told President Donald Trump. “You’re fired!” 

As for me Sir, you know very well I opine that one of the worst and most destructive populism ever, was when the expert bank regulators in the Basel Committee told us that with their risk weighted bank capital requirements, our banks would be safer… not caring one iota about how that would distort the allocation of credit to the real economy and, to top it up, base these on that loony idea that what's perceived as risky is more dangerous to our bank system than what's perceived as safe 

@PerKurowski