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> Its testable predictions preclude a good amount of extant politics, including practically all populism.

How so?

> Elites the world over are losing in democracies because they presupposed, from afar, that they knew what their constituents wanted

Elites the world over are winning in democracies (take the US for example), which could feed into the hypothesis. Indeed, nonzero voters of these elites were easily bought.




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