Such development needs to be understood as a manifestation of a more systemic return of strong leadership in contemporary society, after a time at which prevalent processes of leadership took a technocratic and anti-charismatic form. Since the economic crisis, and amidst a condition of growing political and geo-political turmoil, we have instead been witnesses to the growth of strong leaders across the left/right divide. Think for example about politicians such as Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Pablo Iglesias and Matteo Salvini, Xi Jinping and Vladimir
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