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“... age of cuts, sluggish economic growth and social decay was a community-level manifestation of what Anton Jäger in his new book calls ‘hyperpolitics’: emotive, spectacular, brief and ineffective. A macroeconomic analogue would be the short political career of Yanis Varoufakis, whose style, energy and intellectual erudition made him an icon to ...”

“... still, populism had a latent propensity towards fascism or totalitarianism.Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger know that, despite an enormous and growing literature, the meaning of populism remains hazy, and that its critics mostly treat it as a manipulative and ‘perverse political style’. The Populist Moment briskly rejects this, insisting that ...”

“... populism in 2016 with the referendum, the Tories embraced a phase of what the political theorist Anton Jäger terms ‘hyper-politics’, in which politics is ubiquitous and absurd, touching on everything but changing comparatively little. Those exhausting, comedic and warlike days, dominated by the persona of Boris Johnson, threw everything up into the ...”