Populists became just one species within an ecosystem of disorganized democracy

Evidence

By the middle of the decade, populists had come to constitute one of the political species coinhabiting the ecosystem of disorganized democracy, alongside NGO functionaries, corporate managers, and liberal technocrats. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 184

Categorization

• DEFINE: Jäger’s framing of ‘disorganized democracy’ as an ecosystem in which populists are one species among several captures the hollowed-institution premise of the book.
• XREF: This ‘ecosystem of disorganized democracy’ directly supports the reader’s core aim of explaining saturation-without-change via hollowed-out mass institutions. — connects to: Populism’s signature traits are shared adaptations to disorganized democracy rather than its own — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 83