American Quote by Ross Douthat

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

When it comes to explaining the phenomenon of right-wing populism, liberals are likely to argue both that the populist era has exposed a darkness…

— Ross Douthat

Trump is a product of a seething populism and nationalism that is the driving political force.

— Steve Bannon

I think Donald Trump is truly a populist.

— Megyn Kelly

I think Donald Trump is trying to use populist rhetoric to cover up a right-wing agenda.

— Charles Schumer

“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

Trump is a populist in the same mold as the nineteenth-century Populists who gave their name to American grassroots political movements. Historians and pundits…

— Heather Cox Richardson

For members of the Democratic Party, and progressives all over the world, it is difficult to overstate or hyperbolize the despair and dread that…

— Fabrizio Moreira

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

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

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

— Preston Manning