National populism is now on the rise everywhere, representing a broad-based popular revolt against the values imposed by progressive intellectuals on Western democracies. In the US and many other democracies, arrogant university-educated activists captured policymaking imposing highly unpopular decisions on voters, including uncontrolled mass migration, rampant globalisation, subservience to unrepresentative international institutions, and a moralising crusade to impose codes of conduct that most people found ridiculous and oppressive.