"The anti-elite focus of populist politics should not be misunderstood. Implicit in good populism is a vision of the virtuous elite against which the current incumbents are judged and found wanting. That populism is generally more conceptually pro-elite but practically anti-elite, while bourgeois revolutionaries of the Marxist and Jacobin stripe are more conceptually egalitarian but practically elitist, should not surprise us at all. Genuine populism is rooted in the intuitions and desire for the dignity of working people, whilst revolutionary movements tend to involve the frustrated desires of ousted or marginalised elites and middle-rankers. It’s a subtle but crucial difference. "