Guys like Mark Levin like to over intellectualize the term “Populism” into a pejorative. The were all for Joe Bag lunch voting for guys like Jeff Sessions, Mike Lee and Ted Cruz. Once Joe Bag Lunch went off the reservation and saw the writing on the wall that a loaf of stale bread like Cruz was unelectable the intellectual elites in the conservative movement, the guys at Nation Review, and conservative talk radio turned on them. They really do thing we are stupid and uninformed.
Perhaps his buds on K-Street have become frantically disturbed at the thought of being shown the door by President Trump?
Unlike The Great One, Trump knows America's Greatness is based on the health of middle class and the growth of small business entrepreneurs, NOT continuation of the Deep State through backroom kickbacks, a revolving door between regulators/legislatures and the private sector and holding other nations' well-being above our own ;-)