Is there any merit in Yascha Mounk’s thesis about populist democracies? Not really.

I chanced upon Yascha Mounk through Sagarika Ghose (she’d particularly recommended that I read him, when I met her in October 2018). So what’s his main thesis? I’ve summarised from this paper. Who are populist leaders? “In a wide swath of countries across Europe and North America, a new crop of populists has entered parliament […]