Hyperpolitical-era protest movements have produced almost no durable policy wins

Evidence

So far, however, their record has been meager. Is the global banking sector more tightly regulated than it was in 2008? The collapses of Silicon Valley Bank and the Credit Suisse crisis give reason to doubt it. In Britain, both Brexiteers and Corbynists promised increased funding for the National Health Service; the end of the pandemic found the NHS in its deepest crisis yet. Ambulances queue outside hospitals for want of beds and space in emergency rooms. The United States remains the only advanced industrial nation without a public health system. In Greece, the austerity policies imposed by the institutions were never fully lifted. The Movimento 5 Stelle did manage to introduce a rudimentary version of a universal basic income, after which Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing government has vowed to dismantle it. All OECD nations are well short of meeting their climate goals. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 231

Categorization

• XREF: Empirical inventory supports reader’s application goal: political saturation producing little durable change; connects to 2008-crash aftermath and NHS crisis reports. — connects to: Economic grievance alone could not sustain sustained protest movements past their first burst. — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 26; Mass protest wins tactical concessions while structural demands remain unmet — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 278; Mass protest’s outcomes rarely matched participants’ goals — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 42 (+1 more)