When groups like Indivisible organized against the ACA repeal, who do you think a bulk of the people were protesting at GOP town halls in deep red districts? Right wing populist voters.

And you don't seem to understand that the analysis given by Rising (and I'm no fan of Saagar) isn't that Tucker or Trump is a geniune populist, but that they tap into the populist energy on the right to wield it for their own means.

Right wing populism rarely has leaders that are genuine populists. That's because they're looking for a benevolent strong man to break up the power of the establishment to they feel works against them. The problem is that's not how autocrats work.

And just because right wing populism isn't a capital-M Movement with Leaders, doesn't mean it hasn't been a driving force in politics over the last 80 years. They gave the New Deal unprecedented power during the Great Depression when their economic populism was activated, and they've gave GOP it's power when their racism was activated by the passing of the VRA and Nixon's Southern Strategy.