[NEWS] Five links on populism: Doug Ford and Ontario, Randy Hillier, California, Italy

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• Sabrina Nanji takes a look at the reasons why the populism of Doug Ford is doing so well this year, over at the Toronto Star.


• Andrew MacDougall at MacLean's argues that, to win, Doug Ford needs to find some sort of change that he can champion.


• Edward Keenan takes a look at the (I would say) nearly ridiculous amount of rural populism Conservative MPP Randy Hillier crams into a single tweet, here at the Toronto Star.


• John Cassidy at The New Yorker points to the many ways that California, despite Donald Trump, is pointing away from his brand of populism.


• If, as Foreign Policy suggests, the fragmented and mercurial and populist political scene of Italy is something that will be followed by Europe if not the wider West, we will have problems.