Sola dosis facit venenum (The dose makes the poison)

Credited to 16th-century Swiss physician Paracelsus the expression "Sola dosis facit venenum" means that any substance can be toxic or poisonous, depending entirely on the amount consumed or absorbed.

Let's apply same principle to populism. On small doses it can invigorate the democratic system in big doses it can knock it dead.

If election terms represent the dosage, how many toxic populists' elected terms can a democracy withstand?

It took the Weimar republic one election lost to the thugs of Hitler's party to lead Germany and Europe to its destruction. The already fragile republic was finished by the National Socialist German Workers' Party dead venomous populistic ideology.

Tsipras election term on the other hand alarmed and shook the greek democracy making it realize that clowns, chancers and gamblers can lead to the abyss. 

Mitsotakis omnipotence can largely be credited to this realization as Tsipras' poison worked in favor of normality.

Will US come unharmed out of Trump's second term ?

Is the US democratic system strong enough to detox after two toxic terms or will it degenerate from the poison of Trump and its supporters ?

Tsipras & Trump are the snake oil salesmen who delivered the wrong answers to the acute questions of modernity.

Both ignorant and amoralistic personalities feeding on discontent and spewing venom to their republics.