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Populism is here understood to function according to the logic of resentment, which involves both socio-political indignation at injustice and envy or ressentiment. Populism promises redemption through regaining possession: of a lower status, a wounded identity, a diminished or lost control. Highly moralized images of the past \u2013 historical or archetypal \u2013 are mobilized by populist leaders to castigate the present and accelerate the urgency of change in it. The argument is illustrated with Caesar\u2019s Column, a futuristic novel written by the Minnesota populist leader Ignatius Donnelly. The complex and ambivalent structure of this dystopian novel \u2013 a textual source for the Populist Party manifesto in the 1890s, which stands in contrast with agrarian populism as everyday utopia \u2013 enables us to move beyond the polarized positions dominating the current debate. 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