In this era of economic crisis, social distress, and ecological threats, the term populism has come to sum up anxiety about our political future. While it is mostly associated with rightwing demagogues such as Donald Trump, Matteo Salvini and Jair Bolsonaro, various figures of the post-crash Left, such as Bernie Sanders, Jeremy Corbyn and Pablo Iglesias have also been branded populist, for the way they express that distrust of the elites and belief in ordinary people that have become key motifs of our zeitgeist.