This is where Doug and I differ. There is nothing "boring", "conventional" or "prosaic" about unemployment insurance, pensions, health care and housing.

Once Doug reaches this level of cognition, he will be better positioned to understand much of what is going on in many developed countries. That not every "populist" is harbouring racist thoughts and dreams of Jewish conspiracy. That decency and fairness is not well accommodated within the market fundamentalist parameters of neo-liberalism.