Populism Definition & Meaning

Other Words from populist

Noun

populism \ ˈpä-pyə-ˌli-zəm

\ noun

populistic \ ˌpä-pyə-ˈli-stik

\ adjective

Examples of populist in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Now, with his approval ratings in steep decline, the far-right populist is again revving up the culture wars. — Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2022 Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Latin America, or much of it, is moving to the populist left, and Chile became the latest example by electing socialist Gabriel Boric in Sunday’s presidential runoff election. — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2021 Then another populist went down, in Slovenia, where the country’s three-time prime minister, Janez Jansa, lost to a loose coalition of centrist rivals in parliamentary elections on Sunday. — New York Times, 25 Apr. 2022 French President Emmanuel Macron cruised to a second term Sunday, beating back a stronger-than-expected challenge from a far-right populist who has attacked the European Union and NATO and expressed support for Russia. — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2022 Le Pen worked hard to detoxify her and her party’s image, casting herself as an empathetic economic populist. — Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2022 But Hawley, who has cultivated a reputation as a hardline populist conservative with a particular emphasis on pro-family policies, remained committed to pressing the point. — Michael Warren, CNN, 23 Mar. 2022 Russian elites have been saying that for 30 years, and capitalizing on those sentiments is catnip for an authoritarian populist like Putin. — Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic, 3 Mar. 2022 Moreover, when Democrats began their progressive turn in 1894–96, they were led by a Bible-thumping prairie populist, William Jennings Bryan, who ended his career as a caricatured hate object for progressives in the Scopes Monkey Trial. — Dan Mclaughlin, National Review, 16 Mar. 2022 Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective In his recent public statements, Scott has shifted closer to Johnson’s and Trump’s more populist political rhetoric, which has come to dominate Republican primaries. — Michael Scherer And Josh Dawsey, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Apr. 2022 The center-right liberal party of Ronald Reagan has become the antiliberal right-wing populist party of Donald Trump and his imitators. — Damon Linker, The Week, 14 Mar. 2022 The new dogma hasn’t been fully articulated publicly, but Mr. Kim has adopted populist rhetoric and cast blame on technocrats. — Timothy W. Martin, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2021 Its simple metrical principles, conversational modes, and inclusion of everyday speech make an implicit populist argument. — Matthew Carey Salyer, Forbes, 25 May 2021 Poland, also governed by a right-wing populist government, is Hungary's most loyal partner in the EU. — Justin Spike, ajc, 4 Apr. 2022 Like Hungary, Poland, with a right-wing populist government, had an acrimonious relationship with the European Union before the war. — Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2022 Poland’s right-wing populist government has been embraced by both Brussels and Washington as a linchpin of Western solidarity and security. — New York Times, 25 Mar. 2022 When infections began to rise in the fall, the country's populist government was reluctant to act. — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 13 Oct. 2020 See More

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