| "The *core* beef with populist leaders worldwide IMO, is that they are essentially uncouth, low class."

That reads like the first line of a bitch speech penned by an Effete Liberal, who's never done anything real or significant in his life, hitherto. Except for writing a couple of novels or making a few movies, perhaps.

Of course, because America is Amerika, I can see how many will see your's as a perfect description for Donald Trump, but I'm pretty certain it doesn't hold water for most of the populist leaders currently found elsewhere.

For example, Hungary's PM (Viktor Orbán) sounds very refined and intelligent to me. In fact the so-called Balkan Trio of Fico, Orbán and Vučić each come across as educated, refined, and competent. As does President Putin (who could also be fairly described as a "populist" ... at least if one adheres to the vernacular of the New York Times).

Those who occupy the "Far Left" always see themselves as belonging to some kind of superior elite. And "superficial moral superiority" was all Obama ever possessed. Prior to his rise to public attention, followed by his election successes -- he had been specially groomed (over a number of years) by Penny Pritzker (a key member of the ultra-wealthy Pritzker family) -- which explains why he had to shift to Chicago. The Pritzker family, by the way, have ancestral roots back in the Ukraine (of all places!). Just like Victoria Nuland.

And while in Chicago, Obama frequented a notorious Chicago Bath House (also frequented by Chicago's rich and powerful) where he would engage in sodomy with multiple partners. This is a well-known and well-attested story.

It's a bit of a challenge to describe someone fitting that behaviour and profile as "refined and intelligent". Don't yah tink?

In reality the massive fraud that was Obama (who was 'awarded' a non-existent Columbia University degree) simply turned a skinny half-Indonesian immigrant who was "all form, and no substance" into a very rich boy.

And let's face it; he could only have been voted to the Presidency of the United States by an Electorate that was already comprised of mostly stupid, naive, unworldly, and over-entitled persons: in other words, they were "children pretending to be adults".

Nah, your contempt for Trump is made up of too many cute and flowery justifications. For someone of his stature, there's surely something more reality-based you could find instead?