The Guardian view on hyper-populism: it’s infecting politicians and technocrats | Editorial

We need a society to encourage dissent so that individuals can resist the challenge of undemocratic thought. This means giving people a voice as well as a voteIt was Michael Gove who before the Brexit referendum said “people in this country have had enough of experts”. The highly educated Mr Gove was mining a rich seam of voters fed up with, and disregarding of, expert opinion. Brexiters have continued in this pejorative style. Only last week the foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, rep