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Also in the running is centrist-liberal Salvador Nasralla, a populist of the Liberal Party.
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Gonzalo Zegarra, CNN Money, 29 Nov. 2025
Apocalypse in the Tropics, directed by Petra Costa, shows how the rise of Christian nationalism in Brazil helped propel Bolsonaro, a far-right populist, to the presidency in 2019 after evangelicals leading the movement fastened onto him as their preferred candidate.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 23 Nov. 2025
Trump is a right-wing populist who has denounced Mamdani as a communist and a dangerous Islamic radical.
—Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2025
More recently, Jair Bolsonaro, the right-wing populist who assumed office in 2019, got along famously with the similarly minded Trump during the last two years of the American president’s first term.
—Ron Kampeas, The Washington Examiner, 7 Nov. 2025
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Gonzalo Zegarra, CNN Money, 29 Nov. 2025
Apocalypse in the Tropics, directed by Petra Costa, shows how the rise of Christian nationalism in Brazil helped propel Bolsonaro, a far-right populist, to the presidency in 2019 after evangelicals leading the movement fastened onto him as their preferred candidate.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 23 Nov. 2025
Trump is a right-wing populist who has denounced Mamdani as a communist and a dangerous Islamic radical.
—Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2025
More recently, Jair Bolsonaro, the right-wing populist who assumed office in 2019, got along famously with the similarly minded Trump during the last two years of the American president’s first term.
—Ron Kampeas, The Washington Examiner, 7 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for populist
socialist
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The loudest calls for taxing the ultra-rich amid this year’s Davos summit aren’t coming from hooded anarchists or revolutionary socialists, but from the one-percenters themselves.—
Joe Wilkins Published Jan 22,
Futurism,
22 Jan. 2026
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Old-line liberals have blasted the democratic socialist for de-emphasizing a police presence in favor of volunteers and contract workers armed with little more than overdose kits, notepads and phone numbers.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Jan. 2026
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“Populist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/populist. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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