"Media populism does not build community or togetherness; on the contrary, it maximizes exclusion and rejection. But the excluded and the rejected are no less spectacular than the scandalous and provocative elites! Elitism and populism thus find common ground in the experience of disgust, which has two dimensions that are, at first glance, opposite: on the one hand, it is repulsion, distancing oneself from the contaminant, delimiting a pure sphere; on the other, it is abjection, debasement, and self-degradation, proximity to the impure. (pp. 17-18)"