Many don’t like them classing them as anti-car. They moan about being in a constant traffic jam but when a party has an idea about taking cars off the road they moan then.
This is one problem the Greens are going to have. What they say on the environment is correct but it’s not what people want to hear.
I too dislike the word ‘populist’, it seems to have become a synonym for people who spout simple ‘solutions’ to complex problems. Unfortunately it cuts through even though much of said spouting is, to borrow a phrase, ‘for the birds’ because it’s what people want to hear.