Mediatisation, neoliberalism and populisms: the case of Trump

This article examines the historical conditions for the electoral victory of Donald Trump and contemporary populist movements more generally, focusing on neoliberalism and populism. Populism is understood here according to the discourseanalytic perspective of Ernesto Laclau. After discussing the way in which neoliberalism undermined the legitimacy of political systems based on the “politics of difference,” the article goes on to elaborate an...