The world’s modern populists are discovering a common trait that seems to serve them more than the voters they claim to champion. When scandal strikes, it’s just fresh evidence of their self-fulfilling prophecy that a shady cabal of “deep state” elites bent on suppressing democracy is out to get them. On both sides of the … The post Populist politicians on the right and left take a page out of Donald Trump’s playbook appeared first on Egypt Independent.