Podemos aimed beyond niche entry to displace social democracy wholly

Evidence

Unlike the many single-issue parties that emerged to fragment Western party systems over the past decades, however, Podemos’s project was set at a much higher benchmark. Like its Greek and French left-populist cousins, it had the explicit objective of conquering power and displacing social democracy altogether. — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 305

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