The UK’s prime minister after next is sounding a lot like Jacob Zuma

The rules are there to give effect to the will of the people, right? Nigel Farage is taking the same ultra-populist approach as the one that sent South Africa down an unfortunate path.

Listening to proxies of Nigel Farage talk about “the ultimate authority” of voters this week, I had a full-body flashback to sitting across from Jacob Zuma as he talked about the nature of power.

It was 2007, and Zuma was effectively a private citizen. Later he would become president of first the ANC and then South Africa, and start to entrench what loo…