Left populism helped destroy post-politics yet failed to restore mass politics

Evidence

The year 2008 did dynamite the post-political consensus of the 1990s—an operation which proved partly of left populism’s valiant own doing. “The rumor that politics was dead,” as reported by Ernaux, now appears muted. Hyper-politics offer us a fragile, petulant alternative to the mass politics we knew in the twentieth century. Left populism at least tried to resuscitate the latter. — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 345

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Left populists fused PR skills with square-protest horizontalism into a new politics — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 257; Post-politics gave way directly to hyper-politics without restoring mass organization — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 332; Populism proved a transient politics because its age runs on short-term exit options — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 345 (+13 more)

Broader Connections

• Capitalist realism’s depoliticising hegemony invited populist fervour to replace it #corroborates (0.80) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2042
• Populism converts entrenched abstentionism into obstructionist anti-system voting #expands (0.78) — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 25
• Neoliberalism’s defeat of its own aims produced states yanked by capital and popular zeal #expands (0.75) — Wendy Brown, In the Ruins of Neoliberalism, 139