Populists win support from the very people deregulation harmed

Evidence

Today’s advance of a speculative populist politics presents us with a similar riddle: why do constituencies most affected by years of continuing market deregulation come to endorse finance-driven populists such as Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro, and Narendra Modi? Why are people seemingly voting “against their interests”? — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 99

Categorization

• QUESTION: This is the central riddle the reader must resolve to explain ‘homo speculans’ and assess the counter-speculations chapter.