Populists are on the rise across the globe and claim to speak on behalf of ‘the people’ that are set against the establishment in the name of popular sovereignty. This article examines how populist discourses represent ‘the people’ as a referent object that is threatened and the form and implications of this populist securitisation process. Drawing on securitisation theory and poststructuralism, the article understands populist securitisation as a discursive practice that propagates a politics of fear, urgency, and exceptionality in order to mobilise ‘the people’ against a ‘dangerous’ elite and normalise this antagonistic divide of the social space. While the proposed theoretical framework aims to clarify the relationship between poststructuralist and securitisation theory and capture the nexus between populism and security, the case of populism broadens the scope of potential subjects of security and poses important challenges to existing theoretical assumptions about security as something designated by states’ representatives and ‘security experts’. The article develops and illustrates its arguments with a case study on the (de)securitisation moves in the populist discourse of Donald Trump.

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“人民的敌人”：民粹主义和（不）安全的政治

民粹主义者在全球范围内崛起，并声称代表以人民主权名义反对建制派的“人民”发言。本文探讨民粹主义话语如何将“人民”表示为受到威胁的指称对象，以及这种民粹主义证券化过程的形式和含义。本文借鉴证券化理论和后结构主义，将民粹主义证券化理解为一种话语实践，它传播恐惧、紧迫和例外的政治，以动员“人民”对抗“危险”精英，并使这种对立的社会空间鸿沟正常化. 虽然拟议的理论框架旨在阐明后结构主义与证券化理论之间的关系，并抓住民粹主义与安全之间的联系，民粹主义的案例拓宽了潜在安全主题的范围，并对现有的关于安全的理论假设提出了重大挑战，这些假设是由国家代表和“安全专家”指定的。这篇文章通过一个关于唐纳德特朗普民粹主义话语中（去）证券化举措的案例研究来发展和说明其论点。