Editor's Picks: The paradox of Narendra Modi

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  The Economist. Hi, John Priddo here.

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  I host Checks and Balance, our podcast on US politics.

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  Narendra Modi, India's Prime Minister.

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  is often lumped together with right-wing populists such as Donald Trump or Viktor Orban.

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  On the surface, the comparison is plausible.

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  In 2019,

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  Mr Modi told the Indian Express and newspaper that his electoral success was not due to the Khan market or Lutyens Delhi monikers for India's old establishment.

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  Rather, said Mr Modi, he pulled himself up through 45 years of toil.

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  But the Prime Minister,

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  who is expected to win a third term after India goes to the polls later this month,

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  is no ordinary strongman.

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  In most places,

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  support for anti-establishment populists such as Mr Trump and policies such as Brexit tends to be inversely correlated with university education,

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  not in India.

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  Call it the Modi paradox.

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  It helps explain why he is the most popular leader of any major democracy today.

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  A study in 2020 of Britain, Turkey,

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