Left-populist parties across the West had all lost power by the early 2020s

Evidence

Mason’s conversion also marks the close of an era: the period of “left populism,” when left-wing parties and movements across the West—some old, some new—initiated a populist turn. The story of that era is closely tied to the twists and turns of Mason’s rapturous decade. The “long 2010s,” running roughly from 2008 to 2022, were as tumultuous as they were confusing. In 2015, Mason and others hoped that Syriza would “bring down the international financial system” and build a social Europe. Syriza’s fall from grace was followed by listless poll numbers for Mélenchon in France, Sanders’s defeat in the US, Podemos’s struggles in Spain, Die Linke’s crisis in Germany, and Corbyn’s rout in the UK. By the close of the 2010s, practically all the populist powers were out of power. — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 12

Categorization

• XREF: Frames the decline of 2010s left populism as a historical period worth analysis, connecting to populism literature. — connects to: Left-populist parties across countries followed an identically scripted rise and fall — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 161; 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; Tsipras’s 2015 capitulation triggered the whole left-populist movement’s decline — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 163

Broader Connections

• Left-populist parties across countries followed an identically scripted rise and fall #corroborates (0.90) — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 161
• Post-2008 left populism failed from being either too left-wing or too populist #complicates (0.75) — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 31