Become a subscriber at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod to hear the full interview and loads more exclusive episodes. Carl Shoben advised both Tony Blair and Jeremy Corbyn as a pollster and is now leader of strategic communications for the polling firm Survation. We take the second defeat of Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the first round of the French Presidential election as an opportunity to reflect on the end of the 'left populist' electoral experiments of the past decade, what the international Left continues to misunderstand about its defeat, and the prospects for rediscovering our anti-systemic overlaps with the deplorables. 
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