A team of researchers at Cambridge University’s Centre for the Future of Democracy recently came to some counterintuitive findings.
Using a massive dataset from 27 countries and 81,857 survey respondents, the team suggested the COVID-19 pandemic may have halted the rise of populism and populist leaders across the world. Political polarization over the period appears to have declined — a populist leader’s mishandling of the pandemic led to an average 10 percentage point drop in approval rating.
From Cambridge you say? Historic haven for turncoat Homo commies and upper-class twits.
