Populism the result of weak traditional political parties: When there are no European parties to respond to citizens’ demands, you get populism - by Riccardo Moschetti

The increasing success of the so-called populist movements, and their related propaganda, creates a very tough challenge to the mainstream parties. First of all, the cleavages. The classic clash on the political spectrum with two recognisable main blocks, the right and the left, has been questioned.

Anti-globalisation sentiment was expressed by the extremities of the two blocks, motivated to contest against the first consequences of the globalisation era. Sooner than anyone else, populist movements identified a new social class, the so-called losers of globalisation, and they invested every single effort in communication to the ‘outside world’ through the web.

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