"In [the Unaccountability Machine], I diagnosed the problem of populism as being that people had got tired of not being listened to by the systems that governed them, and responded by using the only remaining communication channel they had. To take the title of my post on the US elections, the gap between governance and governed had got so big that the only signal that channel could carry was a scream. This was (and is) my theory of Trump, Farage, Meloni, etc etc."

https://backofmind.substack.com/p/what-is-once-sprung-cannot-necessarily