‘Populism’ : we used to know what it meant. Now the defining word of our era has lost its (…)

In the 2010s it described an insurgent rhetorical style; in the 2020s it is inadequate to account for the wildly diverging fates of the left and right “Populism” may well have been the defining word of the previous decade: a shorthand for the insurgent parties that came to prominence in the (…)