{"id":215219,"date":"2026-03-20T18:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T18:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=215219"},"modified":"2026-03-20T18:54:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T18:54:00","slug":"populism-we-used-to-know-what-it-meant-now-the-defining-word-of-our-era-has-lost-its-meaning-oliver-eagleton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=215219","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Populism\u2019: we used to know what it meant. Now the defining word of our era has lost its meaning | Oliver Eagleton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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\u201cPopulism\u201d may well have been the defining word of the previous decade: a shorthand for the insurgent parties that came to prominence in the 2010s&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/feb\/18\/populism-defining-word-left-right\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 2010s it described an insurgent rhetorical style; in the 2020s it is inadequate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-style"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215219-populism-we-used-to-know-what-it-meant-now-the-defining-word-of-our-era-has-lost-its-meani69bd97d4a2c03.jpg",140,112,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215219-populism-we-used-to-know-what-it-meant-now-the-defining-word-of-our-era-has-lost-its-meani69bd97d4a2c03.jpg",140,112,false],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215219-populism-we-used-to-know-what-it-meant-now-the-defining-word-of-our-era-has-lost-its-meani69bd97d4a2c03.jpg",140,112,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215219-populism-we-used-to-know-what-it-meant-now-the-defining-word-of-our-era-has-lost-its-meani69bd97d4a2c03.jpg",140,112,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215219-populism-we-used-to-know-what-it-meant-now-the-defining-word-of-our-era-has-lost-its-meani69bd97d4a2c03.jpg",140,112,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215219-populism-we-used-to-know-what-it-meant-now-the-defining-word-of-our-era-has-lost-its-meani69bd97d4a2c03.jpg",140,112,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215219-populism-we-used-to-know-what-it-meant-now-the-defining-word-of-our-era-has-lost-its-meani69bd97d4a2c03.jpg",140,112,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215219-populism-we-used-to-know-what-it-meant-now-the-defining-word-of-our-era-has-lost-its-meani69bd97d4a2c03.jpg",140,112,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215219-populism-we-used-to-know-what-it-meant-now-the-defining-word-of-our-era-has-lost-its-meani69bd97d4a2c03.jpg",140,112,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215219-populism-we-used-to-know-what-it-meant-now-the-defining-word-of-our-era-has-lost-its-meani69bd97d4a2c03.jpg",140,112,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=36\" rel=\"category\">Style<\/a>","tag_info":"Style","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/215220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}