populist
IPA: pˈɑpjʌɫʌst
noun
- A person who advocates populism (a movement against ruling elites who are presumed not to act in the interests of the ordinary citizen).
- A politician who advocates specific policies just because they are popular.
- A person who advocates democratic principles.
adjective
- Democratic.
- (of a political policy) Put forward just because it would be popular.
- Of or pertaining to populism.
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Examples of "populist" in Sentences
- The Populist Party and Modernity.
- Carter ran on a populist platform.
- To the uneducated populist they might be.
- But thanks for thinking of me as a populist.
- Hitler is the classic populist and demagogue.
- And he was an intellectual with populist roots.
- He talks the populist talk, while walking the elitist walk.
- Obama realizes this, and is trying to gain populist sentiment.
- He rejects the term "populist" and says Democrats must be careful not to vilify the rich.
- With inequality rising, a populist backlash could goad governments into raising trade barriers.
- But populist state governments seem to be competing with each other to sponsor pilgrimsof all faiths.
- But the tea party activists ought to understand that as a populist leader, Russo is really just a partisan hireling.
- Why the hell do the press and Republicans cringe when they utter the term populist like they have just eaten a rat turd?
- We have to figure out how to package free labor policy in populist terms that sell to people like Lou Dobbs and his ilk.
- In the end, a "movement" which appears angry and populist is in reality a front group for the worst, most regressive oligarchic policies.
- And I've always wondered why "populist" is used in a rather negative way when it suggests someone is following the path that most people want them to.
- Freshman Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., disclosed yesterday that he's writing what he called a populist's view of the political situation in the United States today.
- So the White House has tried to walk the line between saying the bare minimum in populist applause lines and simultaneously pursuing an extremely pro-business policy agenda.