It's just a small slice of a response, I can't respond to everything at once...
Napoleon was a populist Revolutionary leader. That should be well-understood.
For something more substantial, try "Democracy: the God That Failed" by Hans-Hermann Hoppe.
Napoleon was a populist Revolutionary leader. That should be well-understood.
I'm not convinced that this is a meaningful category. It is similarly connected to how you blame assassins and other issues on the populist revolutions: if historically monarchies lead to these repeatedly, then there's a definite problem in saying that that's the fault of the demotist tendencies, when the same things have not by and large happens in democracies once they've been around for a few years.
Also, while Napoleon styled himself as a populist revolutionary leader, he c...
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