Hyper-political passion coexists with declining organized interest conflict

Evidence

Those who were politicized by the era surrounding the financial crash will remember a time when nothing, not even the austerity policies imposed in its wake, could be described as political. Today, everything is political, and fervently so. And yet, despite these wild passions overtaking and remaking some of the West’s most powerful institutions—particularly in the United States—very few people are involved in the kind of organized conflict between interests that we might once have described as politics in its classical, twentieth-century sense, and antipolitical sentiment has not declined. — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 333