I’m willing to speculate that if you asked undecided and weakly committed voters to define populism, you’d get a blank stare from 92.4% of them. The rest would say it has something to do with People Magazine.
Populism-Schmopulism indeed. Trump isn’t even claiming to be a populist. He’s just saying things “the people” want to say themselves but do not have the platform in Obama’s world as president of only those who agree with him.
Lots of argument on this site about whether O behaves the way he does because of incompetence or intention. Those remarks of his to the effect “DT’s not a real popuist,” were just plain stupid.