When Blake Masters clinched the Republican nomination for Senate in Arizona last week, the result was widely described as a triumph for the “populist” wing of the American right. A typical write-up in the Washington Post described Masters as a representative of a “New Right” that stands for “economic populism, nationalism, and conservative social values.”

The parts about conservative social values and nationalism are accurate. Masters loves to demonize immigrant workers, he wants to overturn same-sex marriage equality, and he all but froths at the mouth when anyone says the word “China.” But is he really an economic populist?

He’s certainly gone out of his way to give that impression. He tweeted that McDonald’s automating jobs once done by humans is a “giant step backwards for our society.” He put out a campaign ad about how “you ought to be able to raise a family on one single income.” (In the ad, he blamed “globalization” for the fact that workers are no longer paid enough for this to be possible.) On his campaign website, he rails against the damage perpetrated by an “unholy alliance” of “Big Government, Big Tech and Big Business.”