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In the past decade, there has been a surge in the triumph in elections of parties with populist ideologies on the political stage. A notable example is the FdI party, which secured victory as the most voted party in the 2022 Italian election, leading to its leader Meloni becoming Italy's first female prime minister. Hence, this article adopts a Gramscian perspective to analyze the ascent of populism. It posits that populism appeals to traditional and conservative individuals who feel marginalized by mainstream ideologies, offering them a discourse through which they can resist elite-driven ideologies. Furthermore, it endeavors to employ electoral outcomes as evidence to illustrate that populists are also adversely affected by European integration and globalization in terms of demographic composition. This exacerbates societal divisions between ordinary citizens and elites.
Xiaoyu Wang (Mon,) studied this question.