As Martin Wolf has emphasized, the 2008-2009 financial crisis made voters understandably angry at “greedy plutocrats and their lackeys in politics and media.” Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman (who sometimes sounds like a Corbynista, but isn’t one) and Wolfgang Munchau stress that Europe’s moderate left lost popular support by being too ready to embrace the extreme version of fiscal austerity demanded by Germany and its orthodox allies.
当然，这一新民粹主义（希拉里·克林顿（Hillary Clinton）的民主党竞争对手伯尔尼·桑德斯（Bernie Sanders）也是民粹主义者）有的是“料”。马丁·沃尔夫（Martin Wolf）强调，2008—2009年金融危机让选民对“贪婪的财阀及其政界和媒体界走狗”愤怒不已，这不难理解。诺贝尔奖获得者保罗·克鲁格曼（Paul Krugman，他有时候也像是个科尔宾主义者，但实际上并非如此）和沃尔夫冈·穆乔（Wolfgang Munchau）强调，欧洲的温和左派因为时刻准备着接受德国及其正统派盟友所要求的极度紧缩而失去了民众支持。