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's significance lies in the fact that there was something here before us, a force more powerful than us.

We should remind ourselves that there was something here before us, a force more powerful than us. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

is a position directly related to an internal contradiction of liberal democracy... namely a tension between the democratic promise of majority rule and the reality of constitutional protection of minority rights. Populism is on the side of majority rule and is hostile towards pluralism and the protection of minorities and forms within an.

Populism and liberal democracy maintain a much more complicated relationship, finally (e.g. Mudde 2007: ch.6). Quintessentially, the ambivalence of the relationship is directly related to the internal contradiction of liberal democracy, that is, the tension between the democratic promise of majority rule and the reality of constitutional protection of minority rights (e.g. Canovan 1999... Meny and Surel 2002b). In this struggle, populism is clearly on the side of majority rule. Moreover, as an essentially monist ideology that believes in the existence of a 'general will of the people,' populism is hostile towards pluralism and the protection of minorities.

is based on the primacy of the political -the notion that any other institutional centre of power, including the judiciary, is believed to be secondary to the unlimited general will of the people.

Accordingly, populism is based on the primacy of the political, which means that any other institutional centre of power, including the judiciary, is believed to be secondary. After all, 'the general will of the people' cannot be limited by anything, not even constitutional protections, that is, vox populi, vox dei (Mudde 2010: 1175).

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