# Bonus - Politics Without Power w/ Anton Jäger (Preview)

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Podcast: [American Prestige](https://stenobird.com/podcast/american-prestige-4093863)
Published: 2026-04-19T12:10:00+00:00
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## Resource

⁠Subscribe now⁠ for the full episode. Danny welcomes back to the show historian ⁠Anton Jäger⁠ to talk about the decline of mass politics and the rise of hyperpolitics across Europe and the United States. They explore the collapse of parties and unions, the neoliberal turn of the 70s and 80s, the 2008 financial crisis and the decade of protest that followed, social media and political expression, the far right’s ascendance and liberalism’s failure, why Trumpism lacks sustainable organization, the Democrats’ inability to build a governing coalition, and whether new political institutions can come out of the current chaos. Grab your copy of Anton’s book ⁠Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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