The Guardian’s Populism Panic
Britain’s leading liberal newspaper has set out on a mission to define and defeat “populism.” It has not gone well.
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Anton Jäger is a postdoctoral researcher at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium and coauthor of The Populist Moment: The Left After the Great Recession.
Britain’s leading liberal newspaper has set out on a mission to define and defeat “populism.” It has not gone well.
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