Nature Quote by Jan-Werner Müller

“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 and elitism are the same thing. They are class prejudices, crude class prejudices that so-and-so, because they are uneducated, is less worthy, or…

— David Brooks

“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

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

— Bruce Braley

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 has had as many incarnations as it has had provocations, but its constant ingredient has been resentment, and hence whininess. Populism does not…

— George Will

There is absolutely no point in not being a populist. What I feel emboldened to do is to take something which is a minority…

— Lee Hall

To those who accuse us of being populists, we respond that if this means listening to the people, then yes, we are!

— Giuseppe Conte

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

— Gavin Esler

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

— Preston Manning

“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