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Antipolitics in Power: Populist Language as a Tool for Government Donatella Campus

At its core, the language of antipolitics consists of the criticism and the attack to the establishment and the ruling elites because they are incompetent, manipulative self-interested. This book analyses the case of some leaders, quite different in terms of character, personal history, cultural references, ideology and national context, who have in common the use of language of antipolitics in power.