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Recent Examples of populist
Trump’s tariff threats on Brazil and Mexico won’t just make tomatoes, coffee and cars pricier for Americans, but will hand Latin America’s populists a political lifeline.
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Miami Herald, 18 July 2025
Trumpism is often characterized as a fractious coalition of techno-libertarians and populists or a new American version of older European authoritarianism.
—Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
American and European populists, nationalists and conservatives are gathering today in Hungary, where Prime Minister Viktor Orbán praised President Trump.
—Leila Fadel, NPR, 29 May 2025
This was not only because Carney took vocally anti-Trump positions, but because his chief rival — Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre — was a right-wing populist whose political style seemed far too close to Trump’s for Canadian comfort.
—Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 2 July 2025
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Miami Herald, 18 July 2025
Trumpism is often characterized as a fractious coalition of techno-libertarians and populists or a new American version of older European authoritarianism.
—Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
American and European populists, nationalists and conservatives are gathering today in Hungary, where Prime Minister Viktor Orbán praised President Trump.
—Leila Fadel, NPR, 29 May 2025
This was not only because Carney took vocally anti-Trump positions, but because his chief rival — Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre — was a right-wing populist whose political style seemed far too close to Trump’s for Canadian comfort.
—Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 2 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for populist
socialist
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In the midst of the Floyd protests, an unknown 28-year-old democratic socialist named Zohran Mamdani was elected to the State Assembly seat that represents Astoria.—
Andrea Long Chu,
Vulture,
5 Aug. 2025
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Mamdani, a Ugandan immigrant and Democratic socialist, was recently criticized for previous posts condemning local police in 2020, a year filled with racial tensions and reports of police brutality.—
Ashleigh Fields,
The Hill,
30 July 2025
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“Populist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/populist. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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