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With some embarrassing voting behind us and a few others to come soon, it's interesting to watch why the populists (with a small "p") among others in the UK, US, the Netherlands and a few other countries have won or will win and lose their widespread support probably slowly afterwards. 

Firstly, they all dismiss and insult the current establishment. However the "establishment" is more than a handfull of politicians. Hundreds of thousands if not millions of hard working people are part of it too and tearing the establishment apart will certainly touch many gov jobs and probably not in a good way. That does not mean the current governments do not need some renewal but simply insulting all those people is not the way forward.

Secondly, they all claim to "bring back jobs which were stolen by the Asians, Eastern Europeans and Mexicans". However, this will prove to be completely impossible because the only way you can do that is changing the country into ... "China". Already a lot of jobs in western countries are taken by foreign workers simply because obviously the own population does not want them. Additionally, the to Asia outsourced jobs are not paid very well compared to own standards so again, either the own people do not want those jobs or they accept to pay more for the more expensive goods they produce themselves.

Thirdly, they all claim also to "create jobs".