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Such institutions help explain why populists such as Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi or Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu, although accused of bending electoral rules and threatening judicial independence, have not dismantled democracy outright in their countries.
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Daniel Treisman, The Conversation, 3 June 2025
The 60-year-old governor has drawn comparisons to Franklin D. Roosevelt, another blue blood who governed as a populist and railed against entrenched economic power.
—Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 May 2025
Röttgen offers little to placate Germany’s surging far-right populists or its moderates concerned about the costs of massive rearmament.
—Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
The verdict was also criticized by some lawmakers in France and a number of Le Pen’s right-wing allies in Europe, from Dutch right-wing populist Geert Wilders to Italy’s deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini.
—Filip Timotija, The Hill, 4 Apr. 2025
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Daniel Treisman, The Conversation, 3 June 2025
The 60-year-old governor has drawn comparisons to Franklin D. Roosevelt, another blue blood who governed as a populist and railed against entrenched economic power.
—Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 May 2025
Röttgen offers little to placate Germany’s surging far-right populists or its moderates concerned about the costs of massive rearmament.
—Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
The verdict was also criticized by some lawmakers in France and a number of Le Pen’s right-wing allies in Europe, from Dutch right-wing populist Geert Wilders to Italy’s deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini.
—Filip Timotija, The Hill, 4 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for populist
socialist
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Cuomo’s polling advantage has narrowed in recent weeks as Mamdani, 33, a democratic socialist, built momentum and nabbed a key endorsement from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.—
Daniel Arkin,
NBC news,
19 June 2025
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Peasants rose up against the authorities, socialists and communists proliferated, and the government used horrific violence to control the populace.—
Ben Woollard,
JSTOR Daily,
18 June 2025
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“Populist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/populist. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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