Anti-politics outsiders normally flounder and get replaced by insiders.
Evidence
Zelensky’s victory can be considered part of the global “anti-politics” wave that crashed across the world in the 2010s and rewarded all kinds of apparent outsiders with high office.* Normally, these figures floundered, became unpopular, and were replaced with experienced insiders in the next election. But floundering was not really an option in Ukraine after his election, and Zelensky would soon be presented with a number of serious challenges. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 735
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Many Bolsonaro voters were uncommitted pragmatists, not committed ideologues. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 722; Absorbing rival elites into the ruling bloc decapitates and neutralizes opposition; Political exclusion drives the mob toward conspiratorial readings of power — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 311 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Absorbing rival elites into the ruling bloc decapitates and neutralizes opposition
#expands(0.75) - Political exclusion drives the mob toward conspiratorial readings of power
#contradicts(0.75) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 311 - Depoliticization can mask rather than end political influence
#corroborates(0.70) — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 1020