Voters rejected realism, not capitalism itself, in the populist revolts

Evidence

The mood that Trump and Brexit caught is a dissatisfaction with capitalist realism. Yet it isn’t capitalism that is being rejected in these inchoate revolts, but realism. … The turn to fantasy is crucial to the current success of the right represented by Trump and Brexit. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2025

Categorization

• XREF: Directly continues the book’s core capitalist-realism thesis across many prior chapters. — connects to: The populist left sought to re-democratize democracy, not abolish capitalism — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 122