Moderate radicalism

OF HUNGRY

These days, it was hard not to remember that statement by Trump at his inauguration: "Today, we transferred power from Washington DC to give it back to you, the people."

Surely, none of his phrases would so deserve to rank among the most genuine populist proclamations of all time.

Four years later, Joe Biden replied: "Democracy has won."

The dispute of the people against democracy, as Yascha Mounk called it, condenses like no other the nature of a time in which "the people" has been the dominant expression, instrumentalized by populism to refer ...

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