“Populism is ultimately sustained by the frustrated exasperation of ordinary people, by the cry "I don't know what's going on, but I've just had enough of it! It cannot go on! It must stop!"”

—  Slavoj Žižek

First as Tragedy, Then as Farce (2009)

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