Sounds great. Pat could say it better than you.
He's a good columnist, I love him on TV, perhaps not a Carville or a Morris as a political advisor, but that's about it, he's not Presidential material, nor a national spokesman.
Populism is just that, populism, a tactic, not a world view, and certainly not a system of governance.
I wouldn't consider him for dogcatcher, the cat's are probably receiving matching funds.
Ross Perot was nothing more than a "populist" himself, and yet his campaign was very effective.