This article explores historical victimhood as a feature of contemporary populist discourse. It is about how populist leaders invoke meta-history to make self-victimising claims as a means for consolidating power. I argue that historical victimhood propagates a forked historical consciousness – a view of history as a series of junctures where good fought evil – that enables the projection of alleged victimhood into the past and the future, while the present is portrayed as a regenerating fateful choice between humiliation and a promised golden age. I focus on the cases of the United States and Turkey and examine two key speeches delivered by presidents Donald Trump and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in 2017. My case-study approach aims to show how the same narrative form of historical victimhood, with its temporal logic and imaginary, latches on widely different contexts and political cultures with the effect of conflating the leader with the people, solidifying divisions in society, and threatening opponents.

本文探讨了历史民粹主义作为当代民粹主义话语的特征。这是关于民粹主义领袖如何利用元历史来自我牺牲的主张，以巩固权力。我认为，历史受害者传播了一种分叉的历史意识，即将历史视为一系列善战邪恶的结合点，这使人们可以将所谓的受害者投射到过去和未来，而现在则被描绘为在过去和未来之间重新生成的命运选择。屈辱和承诺的黄金时代。我将重点介绍美国和土耳其的案例，并考察唐纳德·特朗普总统和雷杰普·塔伊普·埃尔多安在2017年发表的两场重要演讲。我的案例研究方法旨在展示历史受害者的相同叙述形式，其时空逻辑和假想，