Populism: end of an era—or just a pause?

All it would take is a long recession and the populists would be swarming back into power all over the developed world, with the rest of the world not far behind.

Donald Trump, pictured, is out of power and under indictment in the United States. If you squeeze your eyes shut and hope very hard, you might think the heyday of the populists has past, writes Gwynne Dyer.Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

June 15, 2023

LONDON, U.K.—We’re going to miss the populist ‘big beasts’ now that they’re gone. Who will now tell us that “voting Conservative will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3,” as former U.K. prime minister Boris Johns...

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