Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) questions Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent during a hearing on February 5, 2026. | Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
To its fiercest critics, “populism” is a politics of mindless resentment: The populist’s animating ambition is not to help people in general — or the downtrodden in particular — so much as to hurt some vilified elite. If afflicting the comfortable also requires discomforting the afflicted, so be it.
Personally, I think this is wildly unfair. But some of the Senate’s populists would seem to disagree with me. Or at least, they have penned a housing...
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