Kathleen Hennessey, “The Populist Sentiment Fueling Both the Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump Campaigns,” Los Angeles Times, August 14, 2015; Jonah Goldberg, “Sanders and Trump: Two Populist Peas in a Pod?,” National Review, August 19, 2015; George Packer, “The Populists,” New Yorker, September 7, 2015; George Parker, “Corbyn taps into rising mood of populism on the left,” Financial Times, September 13, 2015; Charles Wheelan, “Welcome to the Age of Populism Peddlers,” US News, September 14, 2015. These examples all happen to come from a four-week period in August–September 2015, but the use of the term to describe Sanders, Trump, and Corbyn has continued at a steady pace since then.
Owen Matthews, “Beyond Brexit: Europe’s Populist Backlash Against Immigration and Globalization,” Newsweek, June 28, 2016; Rana Foroohar, “Why You Can’t Dismiss the Populism Behind the Brexit,” Time, June 28, 2016; Edward Alden, “What Brexit Reveals About Rising Populism,” Council on Foreign Relations, June 29, 2016; Jonathan Freedland, “From Brexit to Trump?,” New York Review of Books: NYR Daily, June 25, 2016; Nouriel Roubini, “Globalization’s Political Fault Lines,” Project Syndicate, July 4, 2016.
Ernesto Laclau, “Towards a Theory of Populism,” in Politics and Ideology in Marxist Theory: Capitalism, Fascism, Populism (London: Verso, 1977), 161.
“The triumph of populism: How Silvio Berlusconi secured a convincing majority for the centre-right,” Economist, July 5, 2001; “Hugo Chávez’s rotten legacy,” Economist, March 9, 2013; Chrystia Freeland, “Putin’s populist bluster belies the loneliness of the cynic,” Financial Times, December 28, 2014; Jonathan Blitzer, “Argentina’s Kirchner Era Ends,” New Yorker, October 28, 2015; Ian Traynor, “Marine Le Pen’s success reveals populists’ appeal to European voters,” The Guardian, April 23, 2012; Robert Looney, “Morales Walks the Populist High Wire,” Foreign Policy, February 26, 2013; Alkman Granitsas, “Greek Leader Tsipras Proposes Series of Populist Measures,” Wall Street Journal, February 27, 2015; Cas Mudde, “Is Hungary Run by the Radical Right?,” Washington Post, August 10, 2015.
Marco d’Eramo, “Populism and the New Oligarchy,” New Left Review 82 (July–August 2013): 8.
Ibid., 27.
Peter Mair, Ruling the Void: The Hollowing-Out of Western Democracy (London: Verso, 2013).
Hito Steyerl, “The Articulation of Protest,” in The Wretched of the Screen (Berlin: Sternberg Press/e-flux journal, 2012), 78, 85.