This paper shows how populism and technocracy weaken liberal democracy by impoverishing individuals’ political role: while populism impoverishes this role by involving individuals in massifying processes, technocracy reduces it by detaching them from their active political sphere. Which consequences for the liberal script can we draw from this? As the political role of the individuals fades, so do representativity and responsibility. And if representativity and responsibility deteriorate, the vulnerability of liberal democracies increases dramatically. With a political-philosophical analysis of the roots and problematic issues of technocracy and populism, the paper unearths not only their differences but also, and above all, their common features and shared starting and ending points. Furthermore, addressing the connection between (the crisis of) representativity and the individual makes it possible to conceptually refuse populism and technocracy’s pretence to be a better alternative to or at least an improvement of the liberal scripts.