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populist
/ˈpɑ.pjə.lɪst/
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What does populist mean?
noun
- A person who advocates populism (a movement against ruling elites who are presumed not to act in the interests of the ordinary citizen).
- A politician who advocates specific policies just because they are popular.
- A person who advocates democratic principles.
More meanings (3)
adjective
- Democratic.
- Put forward just because it would be popular.
- Of or pertaining to populism.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈpɑ.pjə.lɪst/
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He had been that all his life—he had fought the railroads in Kansas for fifty years, a Granger, a Farmers’ Alliance man, a “middle-of-the-road” Populist.
There were so many problems before the people--prohibition, free silver, and the Populist propaganda--that we found ourselves involved in the bitterest campaign ever fought out in the state.
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I soon found out that the Republican party, composed almost wholly of the black people, was represented by an election officer in the person of one of the best-educated colored men in the town, that both the Democratic and Populist parties were equally well represented, and that there was no suspicion of unfairness.