populist
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"He has shaped the image of the first populist president, the first acclaimed strongman of the 21st Century."
From BBC • May 30, 2026
Yet when the 1896 presidential election pitted the soft-money populist, William Jennings Bryan, against William McKinley, the hard-money Republican, McKinley won the electoral majority, 271 to 176, and the popular vote, 51% to 46.7%, besides.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
As Capp explains, "This was a sort of populist political gesture, essentially inviting the moral support of the crowd."
From Science Daily • May 7, 2026
The possibility of a populist backlash is especially relevant currently, given that the share of national income going to labor is now at an all-time low.
From MarketWatch • May 6, 2026
For a good part of the eighteenth and all of the nineteenth century, the populist, light, tuneful Italian style of opera was what most people went to an opera house for.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Vocabulary lists containing populist
We the People: Popul
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