Working inside an established party warps and defeats the populist challenger

Evidence

The risk of wounded attachment to a party inimical to its desires thereby also increased: rather than an instrument to be deployed at will, the Labour Party warped Corbynism’s priorities. It turned out the party was using them, and not the other way around. This interiority made marginalization all but inevitable: they had to amputate themselves to signal disaffiliation with the outfit, or tie themselves to a corpse. — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 301

Categorization

• XREF: Mirrors the Bernie section’s point that avoiding capture requires staying organizationally outside the party machine. — connects to: Democratic co-optation destroyed the original Populist party — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 63; A left-populist’s trajectory depends on the fate of its social democratic rival — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 299

Broader Connections

• A left-populist’s trajectory depends on the fate of its social democratic rival #expands (0.78) — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 299