Abstract
This chapter describes common features concerning contemporary proponents of "populism" and liberal "globalism". Both of these mutually antagonistic ideologies put considerable effort in order to create a nostalgic version of the past, newer actually existing.
Populists claim that such past represents a harmony of traditional values; liberals imagine it as a golden time of rational, technocratic politics. Politics based on such nostalgic sentiment embodies a significant threat to the procedural core of modern democracy, since the nostalgia renders actual opinions of the public irrelevant.