populist

as in socialist

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Recent Examples of populist The world’s richest man also used the R-word to insult the intelligence of Navarro, an economic populist who is one of the most outspoken advocates for higher import taxes designed to protect American manufacturing. Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 8 Apr. 2025 Ansell said European populists may be learning the wrong lessons from Trump’s victory. Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 5 Apr. 2025 This idea that tech-forward people and the populists are somehow inevitably going to come to a loggerheads is wrong. Brett Samuels, The Hill, 18 Mar. 2025 When mainstream politicians attack conservative populists, the latter can easily shrug off any criticism as the revenge of elites. Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for populist
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socialist
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  • That was demonstrated on the night before Newsom’s announcement when Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — two East Coast democratic socialists — attracted nearly 30,000 people at an anti-Trump rally in a Republican congressional district near Sacramento.
    George Skelton, Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Many in the audience also came to hear Ocasio-Cortez, 35, a sharp, politically savvy Democratic socialist once at the fringes of the Democratic Party who is now broadening her national appeal.
    Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2025

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“Populist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/populist. Accessed 29 May. 2025.

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