Benjamin Moffitt is Associate Professor of Politics at the National School of Arts, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne. He is the author of 'Populism' (Polity, 2020), 'Political Meritocracy and Populism: Cure or Curse?' (Routledge, 2020, with Mark Chou and Octavia Bryant), and 'The Global Rise of Populism: Performance, Political Style and Representation' (Stanford University Press, 2016), and editor of 'Populism in Global Perspective: A Performative and Discursive Approach' (Routledge, 2021, with Pierre Ostiguy and Francisco Panizza).