Yascha Mounk
The article discusses the role of populism in democracy, presenting a brief history from the Roman Republic to the end of World War II and focusing on the rise of populism since the 1990s. Topics include the Tea Party movement in the U.S. and European populist parties; the role of perceived economic and cultural decline in creating populism; and ideas such as nationalism, traditionalism, antistatism, Euroskepticism, the silent majority, conservatism and liberalism, economic populism, welfare states and increasing inequality.