Class warfare Quote by David Brooks

“Populism actually reinforces this elitism, because the celebration of ignorance cannot launch communications satellites, negotiate the rights of US citizens overseas, or provide for…

— Thomas M. Nichols

A populist is someone who fights for common sense economic policies that sustain and expand the middle class.

— Bruce Braley

“Populists, by contrast, will persist with their representative claim no matter what; because their claim is of moral and symbolic- not an empirical- nature,…

— Jan-Werner Müller

'Elitist' doesn't need to mean wealthy and conservative; it can also mean specialised and rarefied, and that's no bad thing.

— Mark Morris

Populism is about is alienation in large numbers of people, but aggravated and provoked by a deteriorating economic conditions.

— Preston Manning

Populism is the simple premise that markets need to be restrained by society and by a democratic political system. We are not socialists or…

— Molly Ivins

Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own…

— Jim Hightower

I think that liberalism and the centrist governing elite of this country need to learn lessons from the Trump phenomenon. It is part of…

— Ross Douthat

Populism, literally, means speaking for 'the people.' In practice it means demagoguery.

— Gavin Esler

“Populism is not conservatism, which by definition entails resistance to public whims. Conservatives who seek to use populism for their own ends inevitably make…

— Bret Stephens

Populists love rich people. They just hate professionals.

— David Brooks

Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy,…

— Jim Hightower