Sumário:Democracy is destiny : overcoming ochlophobia -- "Populism" is overdeployed as an inherently pejorative and polemic concept -- The real debate that is implied but at the same time closed off by "populism" talk : what is the relationship of liberalism to democracy? -- Is there any real evidence that making democratic politics less elitist would threaten liberalism? -- Is the elite liberal democrat version of democracy a good enough approximation of the ideal or promise of democracy?