Post-politics gave way directly to hyper-politics without restoring mass organization

Evidence

To many on the right, society now feels overwhelmed by a permanent Dreyfus Affair—spilling over into family dinners, friends’ drinks, and workplace lunches. To people who consider themselves centrists, it has created a longing for an era before the new hyper-politics, a nostalgia for post-history in the 1990s and 2000s, when markets and technocrats were exclusively in charge of policy. That era of “post-politics” has clearly ended. Yet instead of a rekindling of the politics of the twentieth century—complete with a revival of mass parties, unions, and workplace militancy—it is almost as if a step has been skipped. — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 332

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Left populism helped destroy post-politics yet failed to restore mass politics — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 345; Hyperpolitics collapses public and private without restoring organized movement politics.; Post-2008 protest mutated elite-mass management without shifting power. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization…, 25 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Hyperpolitics collapses public and private without restoring organized movement politics. #corroborates (0.88)
• The shift to subjectivity-based politics relocated rather than abandoned the political #expands (0.78) — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited, 996
• Post-2008 protest mutated elite-mass management without shifting power. #corroborates (0.75) — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 25