Post-2008 anxieties produced populist fed-up-ness with technocratic elites.

Evidence

This state of affairs entered a whole new phase after the 2008 financial crisis, when the failures of financial markets and the subsequent “adjustment” of their host economies around the world exacerbated a climate of generalized anxiety and worldwide impatience. These events culminated in a “fed-up-ness” both with incumbent global political elites and with their technocratic reasoning (Davies 2018). At the outset, then, these mounting conflicts between “experts” and “publics” seem to suggest a global withering of neoliberalism’s promissory legitimacy. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 74

Categorization

• XREF: Feeds directly into the reader’s thesis that financialized populism is speculative betting rather than contrary-voting; the fed-up-ness with experts lays the groundwork for voters rejecting technocratic framing. — connects to: Populist attacks on central banks intensified while technocratic crisis responses expanded — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 702
• SEED: Angle: traces the causal chain from 2008 crisis → anxiety/impatience → fed-up-ness with elites → the emergence of speculative voting as an alternative reading of populism.