You can’t really call the troubling re-emergence of the far-right “populist”, since it does nothing to empower the disenfranchised, and simply exploits the public’s fear and anger to gain support, while further empowering the very people responsible for the conditions the public is angry about, and redirecting this anger from those deserving of it and onto the usual scapegoats; minorities, especially Muslims, the "other" this time around,  and of course liberals/progressives – the only ones who actually challenge and therefore threaten the status quo.

“policies that promise prosperity but end up killing jobs, incomes, hopes and dreams”

Indeed. 

Like the deregulation and privatization schemes forced on all aligned states by right-wing government who abdicated their power to corporate interests, under the guise of “free trade” and “globalization’, which crashed the economies of all aligned states and emptied their public coffers into private pockets.