Left-populist parties across countries followed an identically scripted rise and fall

Evidence

For the populist moment of the left, all in all, followed a remarkably similar script in every country: early electoral successes creating high expectations, period of institutionalization marked by public scandals and internal tensions, and relative failure leading to the downscaling of initial ambitions. — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 161

Categorization

• XREF: This three-stage arc generalizes the Syriza and Podemos cases the reader is tracking into a recurring populist-cycle template. — connects to: Left-populist parties across the West had all lost power by the early 2020s — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 12; Post-2008 left populism failed from being either too left-wing or too populist — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 31; Center-left parties’ embrace of austerity fueled the European populist upsurge — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 111 (+5 more)
• SEED: The recurring left-populist lifecycle — early wins, scandal-ridden institutionalization, ambition downscaling — is itself a publishable comparative-historical essay structure.

Broader Connections

• Left populism helped destroy post-politics yet failed to restore mass politics #expands (0.75) — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 345