“…Perceiving the rising support of populist parties, many authors made the effort to understand and identify the causes for the increasing popularity of populist parties (Albertazzi & McDonnell, 2008). Several scholars focused on not only populist parties but populist political leaders like Donald Trump in the United States, Geert Wilders in the Netherlands, Marine Le Pen in France and Viktor Orbán in Hungary (Block & Negrine, 2017;Demeter, 2017;Doerfel & Taylor, 2017;Engesser, Ernst, Esser, & Büchel, 2017;Enli & Rosenberg, 2018;Pal, Chandra, Chirumamilla, Kameswaran, Gonawela, Thawani & Dasgupta, 2017).…”