Always Quote by George Will

The rise of populism has steadily coalesced movements of millions of people around its divisive us-against-them rhetoric, motivating so many more people to become…

— Jo Swinson

“Populism is ultimately sustained by the frustrated exasperation of ordinary people, by the cry "I don't know what's going on, but I've just had…

— Slavoj Žižek

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

— Preston Manning

The word 'populism' was everywhere in 2016. Political leaders claiming to speak for the people have achieved significant victories in Europe, Asia, and, with…

— Margaret MacMillan

“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

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

— Gavin Esler

Pundits talk about 'populist rage' as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.

— Elizabeth Warren

In truth, the 'populist anger' fueling Trump's coalition is fundamentally different from Sanders' 'progressive populism.' The superficial similarities between the two end when they…

— Tom Tancredo

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

“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

Simply because something is a populist movement doesn't make it either good or bad.

— P. J. O'Rourke

As a rule, [populism] is done for the sake of political expediency by those who do not care about the consequences, who do not…

— Vladimir Putin