How populist politics succeeds and fails

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Why is populism, broadly defined, on the brink of historic victories around the world, while populism in the form of President Donald Trump’s Republican Party is poised to lose one or both houses of Congress in the United States?

The troubles Trump’s Republicans face are not a mystery. It was always unlikely that Republicans would maintain their hair’s-breadth House majority.

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