American populist politics has a long tradition, from…

It has become commonplace to call Trump a reality TV star. That is said as an aspersion, the way Ronald Reagan was called an…

— Richard Cohen

We've always believed that popular culture and populist politics go hand in hand. It's an honor to be working with so many respected and…

— Eli Pariser

“Wait till Buzz takes charge of us. A real Fascist dictatorship!" "Nonsense! Nonsense!" snorted Tasbrough. "That couldn't happen here in America, not possibly! We're…

— Sinclair Lewis

“Anthony Howard, then editor of the left-wing New Statesman , once pointed out that if Huey Long had only used left-wing phraseology he would…

— Robert Conquest

“I came to the state twenty years ago from the South, the gothic South. I’ve heard it called that, haven’t you, Mister Morgan? ‘Thought…

— Jackson Burnett

When President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal eased but did not end the country's economic ills, a trio of leftist radicals - Sen. Huey…

— Robert Dallek

American populism is no stranger to our political life. From the earliest anti-Federalists to William Jennings Bryan, Huey Long, and George Wallace, and many…

— Rick Wilson

“It caused my opposition to any ideologies—Marxist, Fascist, National Socialist, what you will—because they were incompatible with science in the rational sense of critical…

— eric voegelin

“Why, there’s no country in the world that can get more hysterical—yes, or more obsequious!—than America. Look how Huey Long became absolute monarch over…

— Sinclair Lewis

“And empathy? Even Trump’s former mentor, the notorious Roy Cohn, lawyer for gangsters and Joseph McCarthy, said that when it came to his feelings…

— Bandy X Lee

As a lifelong student of the world’s wisdom literature, it is my duty to inform students that “ridding the world of evil” is a…

— David James Duncan

“And as for people shunning us because of our known association with homosexuals”—here she wiggled her eyebrows, because she sounded ridiculously like Joseph McCarthy—“I…

— Julia Spencer-Fleming

Joseph McCarthy, the Junior Republican Senator from Wisconsin, ruled America like devil king for four years. His purges were an American mirror image of…

— Martha Gellhorn

“Earlier that year, at the hundredth anniversary of his Harvard club, a member was talking about the spirit of Harvard College and saying how…

— Chris Matthews

I will not get into a pissing contest with that skunk [Joseph McCarthy].

— Dwight D. Eisenhower