and was no sign of marine le pen or her far-right colleagues.pite the easy passage of this legislation, it has been hugely controversial. before it was even published, macron announced the bill in october and said his government would be creating legislation aimed at what he referred to as islamist separatism. but nowhere in the actual text of the legislation to either of those two words appear. in a bid to avoid criticism that this bill was aimed and targeted at the muslim population. this legislation has been condemned by those on the left and on the right. the muslim community saying it is unfairly stigmatizing them. while partisan commentators on the right say it is too vague and does not go far enough. the legislation has been passed in the lower house. it does have to go to the senate, the upper house. it is expected at this stage to become law by the middle of the year. >> the law now before the french senate for the final approval. we will bring you the result of that as soon as we get it. next, a group of hong kong activists accused the

too from traditional commentators in the french media and also from the nationalist politician marine le penwe put the issue up for debate. this year is really political correctness gone mad because they actually do have 5 black ballet dancers in there so i really don't know what the people who are calling for change here are all worried about we have some talented people here who are false to live friends express that the one where this is a huge problem and what alex underneath is saying now is he's take he's taking the problem to the roof that's mean that into recruitment he's changing the way a for a critic meant cripple and it's a very new thing in france because we know that this is a very elitist well what you should do in every case is pick the best person for the job the most talented the most skilled person for the roles the parasol they have their ballet school and they've changed their admissions procedure to let people in from ethnic minorities and black people to come in and as they come in through the system they're actually going up into the opera so this is already happening

joseph mccarthy, george wallace, ross perot, howard dean, sarah palin, hugo chavez in venezuela, marine le penfrance, someone from hungary, and gyre bolsonaro from brazil? of course, the answer is they have all been described as populists. a quick google search this week for the word populism returned nearly 25 million hits. by the way, this is more than double the number that i got when i did the same google search back in 26. clearly, the term which based in the 1890's is still very much with us today. i will just hold up a few examples from recent american history to illustrate this. obama hones populist message in nevada. biden stokes working class populists. that was from the 2012 campaign. paul ryan, a populist. met romney. really? this might suggest to us the term has been so overused and is meaningless. at the very least, it must be a very malleable term to be applicable to such a broad array of public figures. so what is populism? what does it mean to say someone is a populist or that he or she made a populist appeal to some audience? here is my handy dandy four-pa rt definition. firs