Jack interviews PhD student Anton Jäger (@AntonJaegermm on Twitter) about populism in its myriad, and sometimes nebulous, forms: its American origins, the respective populisms of the left, right, and centre, and the liberal discourse around populism, with its invocation of "the people" and its folk devils like Russia and Seumas Milne.
Read Anton's recent Jacobin piece, The Myth of "Populism" here: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/01/populism-douglas-hofstadter-donald-trump-democracy
And also for Jacobin, Anton's review of Chantal Mouffe's For a Left Populism:
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/06/for-a-left-populism-mouffe-review
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