populist

Example Sentences

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Instead, he linked his positions to a broader critique of stagnating wages and inequality, citing decades of flat real earnings for most US workers as a driver of populist politics on both left and right.

From BBC • Jun. 12, 2026

Shaw has framed her campaign as a populist effort against a failed and self-interested status quo establishment.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

“He’s a phenomenon of populist politics,” Toth said.

From Salon • May 29, 2026

Out in the street, a business consultant who recently voted for the left-wing populist Green Party, also worried about illegal migrants, as did a painter who was busy refurbishing Cain’s butcher’s shop.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026

The tumult of 1848—the bloody populist revolutions that swept fiercely through France, Denmark, Germany, and Austria and overturned social, political, and religious orders—largely passed him by, like distant thunder.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee