ABSTRACT
According to the media, populist candidates are challenging the establishments of both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. Journalists and pundits had been waiting for it for months: a win for Sanders and Trump in the same primary. Then they could finally rehash their "rise of populism" articles, which they had already published a few months earlier when Sanders and Trump first emerged as possibly relevant candidates. Trump has adopted part of the populist message of the Tea Party, criticizing both the Democratic and Republican establishments for incompetence and for being in the pockets of big donors. However, whereas Trump is clear on the corruption, although even more incompetence, of the homogeneous elite, making little distinction between Democrats and Republicans, he only heralds "the people" when he thinks they support him.
