Tsipras’s 2015 capitulation triggered the whole left-populist movement’s decline

Evidence

From that point on, however, the upward movement stalled. The first setback occurred as early as the summer of 2015. Alexis Tsipras bowed to the demands of his European creditors, thus halting the momentum that brought him to power and condemning his party to go back into opposition after the next general election. The Greek white flag, in turn, created the first tensions between the Spanish corsair and the French, the latter trying to dissociate himself from Tsipras’s strategy. … Podemos experienced its electoral apex in 2015–16—in 2019, it lost half of its seats in Parliament (from seventy-one to thirty-five). Most importantly, it almost imploded in the meantime; it lost its most prominent strategist and former number two, Íñigo Errejón, due to fierce disputes over the party’s game plan. La France insoumise (LFI) performed disappointingly in all the elections held after the presidential contest (legislative, local, European). Its leader’s reputation was seriously damaged by the controversial episode of the police search of party headquarters. In the UK, Corbyn never succeeded in pushing Labour’s results up, in a context overdetermined by the Brexit negotiations, and eventually stepped down from the party leadership. Finally, Bernie failed once more to win the Democratic Party’s nomination for the presidency, notwithstanding his four years of preparation and the considerable financial and human resources he relied on during his campaign. — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 163

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; Left-populist parties across countries followed an identically scripted rise and fall — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 161; Post-2008 left populism failed from being either too left-wing or too populist — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 31 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Left-populist parties across the West had all lost power by the early 2020s #corroborates (0.80) — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 12
• Left populism helped destroy post-politics yet failed to restore mass politics #complicates (0.75) — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 345
• Post-2008 left populism failed from being either too left-wing or too populist #qualifies (0.75) — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 31
• Left-populist parties across countries followed an identically scripted rise and fall #complicates (0.72) — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 161