http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20201006-124931-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/status-quo-hegemony/ Status Quo Hegemony? Iancu, Bogdan eng 2020-10-06 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Hegemony Populism Rule of Law Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 For over a decade now, the mainstream liberal discourse, also on the Verfassungsblog, has consisted in the incantation of one mantra: ‘populists’ are destroying ‘the rule of law’. What started as an attempt to describe the post-2011 situation in Hungary has gradually become a conceptual master key or, better yet, a jack-of-all-trades.