I think that applies to a lot of people. Populist charlatans have had a go across many countries and the electorate seem largely to be working out that a lot easy to tell people what they want to hear but reality is all empty promises when they get a chance to deliver.
Media has lot to answer for constantly hammering simplistic messages. Loads wrong with the world but frauds like Johnson and Trump aren’t the ones to fix it. I see the Mail is banging on about taking an axe to NHS bureaucracy today. These cuts never hurt services they are just correcting and making efficient by taking out wasteful non-jobs.