“In Europe, populism is sort of a dirty word, but we have this wonderful history of populism in America, including the abolitionist populists and the white and black populists working together in the nineteenth century.” TogetherAmericaBlackWhiteWonderfulCenturyEuropeIncludingDirtyWorking TogetherNineteenth CenturyPopulistPopulismAbolitionistDirty Words Author:Zephyr Teachout
“History is a series of mistakes. Now the task is to plan for those mistakes so those of us who are populists can actually take over the reins of power when the right mistakes are made.” MadeMistakePlansTasksSeriesReinsPopulist Author:Zephyr Teachout
“There's something in life that's cool, it's relatively cheap, and fun, and populist. Even when it's elitist.” FunPopulistElitist Author:Stephen Malkmus
“But if we keep denying that there are problems with some male immigrants, then we will just drive the people into the arms of the right-wing populists. Without the ignorance or the trivialization on the part of all the political parties, there would be no Pegida or Alternative for Germany.” PeopleIfsProblemWould BePoliticalPartyIgnoranceArmsWingsMalesAlternativesGermanyImmigrantsPolitical PartiesRight WingPopulist Author:Alice Schwarzer
“The Republican Party, right now, is a conservative populist party.” PartyRepublicanRight NowConservativeRepublican PartyPopulist Author:Mara Liasson
“The lesson is that voters in both parties are in a very anti-establishment, populist mood. Hillary Clinton is the establishment candidate.” PartyLessonsClintonMoodCandidatesVotersEstablishmentPopulist Author:Mara Liasson
“There are so many shoot-'em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist.” ThinkingYearsMadeShowsActionLinesTvsHollywoodFinalsEmsTv ShowsPopulist Author:Adam McKay
“I think Donald Trump is a pragmatic sort of populist and who tell people anything in any moment that he wants them to hear, if he thinks that it`s going to be to his advantage, that everything is going to reset in the general election, assuming that he is the nominee, and I think it will be interesting to watch how many people feel betrayed or conned with the game he played with the Republican Party at this point.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantFeelsMomentsGamesInterestingPartyWatchesTrumpRepublicanAdvantageElectionAssumingRepublican PartyBetrayedPragmaticPopulistResetGeneral Elections Author:Ben Domenech
“Musicians always want to sacrifice our creativity to get involved in environmental issues or political activism of some sort - to reduce it to something more populist in terms of sing-alongs or guitar songs with a message.” WantPoliticalSongTermCreativityIssuesSacrificeInvolvedMessagesMusicianEnvironmentalGuitarActivismGet InvolvedPopulistEnvironmental IssuesPolitical Activism Author:Eyvind Kang
“What I don't know is whether there is a way politically that you can beat away these, some of these populist movements because in the end I don't think they really do provide answers. They ride the anger. But they don't really have the answers. Or whether this is an experiment we're just going to have to go through first.” ThinkingKnowsWayFirstsEndsAnswersMovementBeatsExperimentsPopulist Author:Tony Blair
“Since populists never miss an opportunity to create a lot of noise about anti-Europe stance. However, the repercussions of the British referendum could quickly put a stop to such crass rabble-rousing, as it should soon become clear that the UK was better off inside the EU - economically, socially and in foreign policy terms.” ShouldOpportunityTermClearMissingPolicyEuropeBritishNoiseForeign PolicyBetter OffStanceRepercussionsPopulistReferendumsCrass Author:Jean-Claude Juncker
“No matter what Donald Trump says, he has deep socialist leanings. He's a nationalist and a populist. And throughout history, whenever you combine those three things it never ends well.” WellsEndsMatterThreeTrumpNo Matter WhatSocialistThree ThingsPopulist Author:Glenn Beck
“It is quite possible that we will soon come to live under some sort of global despotism, enlightened or not. This is not a nice prospect. And there is only one way of avoiding that this happens: to establish a global democracy. And it is not too late to strive for such a democracy, of a straightforward populist nature, where people on the globe elect a world parliament, which in turn elects a world government.” PeopleWorldWayGovernmentHappensTurnsDemocracyNiceLateStriveOne WayToo LateEnlightenedGlobesAvoidingParliamentStraightforwardDespotismWorld GovernmentPopulist Author:Torbjorn Tannsjo
“I do believe that what I have called populist democracy is to be preferred to what I have called elitist democracy.” BelieveDemocracyPopulistElitist Author:Torbjorn Tannsjo
“In many European countries we have populist indirect democratic systems. The people elect, in a proportionate manner, a parliament. The parliament with all its parties is representative of the political opinions among the citizens. It is reasonable to claim that the people rule itself through the political institutions.” PeopleCountryPoliticalPartyOpinionCitizensClaimsInstitutionsDemocraticReasonableRepresentativesParliamentIndirectPopulistEuropean CountriesPolitical OpinionsPolitical Institutions Author:Torbjorn Tannsjo
“The difference between us and the other side is that they use populist and...kind of slogans that are...they fool the people. They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.” PeopleKindUseSidesDifferencesWillingFoolSlogansPopulist Author:Akbar Ganji
“Through American history, we have had populist movements that often, often, often have this ugly racial element. But, often, there are warning signs of some deeper social and economic problem.” ProblemSocialEconomicMovementElementsUglyDeeperWarningAmerican HistoryPopulistEconomic ProblemsWarning Signs Author:David Brooks
“The New York Times had a headline on its website - Trump Turning To Ultra Wealthy To Steer Economic Policy. This doesn't sound very populist to me. Today's commerce secretary, the names being talked about for treasury secretary, I think there will be populist talk but maybe no populist action.” ThinkingTodayActionNamesSoundEconomicPolicyNew YorkTrumpWealthyCommerceSecretaryWebsiteHeadlinesNew York TimesSteersTreasuryPopulistEconomic PolicyUltras Author:E. J. Dionne
“Populists love rich people. They just hate professionals.” PeopleHateRichRich PeoplePopulist Author:David Brooks
“Populists hate journalists, they hate teachers, they hate lawyers, but they tend to like rich people. There's something deeply consistent.” PeopleHateRichTeacherLawyerJournalistConsistentRich PeoplePopulist Author:David Brooks
“If I were Donald Trump, I would definitely not pick Mitt Romney because it's very easy for Mitt Romney to have have a separate foreign policy operatus in the State Department that would run a dissenting foreign policy from the White House foreign policy. There, I think the populist America-first foreign policy of Donald Trump does run against a potential rival.” IfsThinkingFirstsDoeStatesRunningAmericaHouseEasyWhitePolicyTrumpPicksDepartmentWhite HouseForeign PolicyRivalsRomneyPopulist Author:David Brooks
“Donald Trump's staffing up a pretty traditional, very conservative Republican government, not a populist outsider government, at least not yet.” GovernmentTrumpRepublicanConservativeTraditionalOutsidersPopulistRepublican GovernmentStaffing Author:Mara Liasson
“I just think, realistically, there's a lot of room outside the Trump populist right and the Bernie-Sanders-Elizabeth-Warren populist left. There are a lot of us who believe in open trade, open borders, a dynamic forward-looking economy, not a nostalgic economy, but do want to provide a significant level of social service or sort of economic Milton Friedman foreign policy, Ronald Reagan domestic policy, Franklin Roosevelt. And there's a lot of room in the center.” ThinkingWantBelieveLeftSocialLevelsRoomsEconomyEconomicPolicyTrumpTradeSignificantBordersForeign PolicyFranklinNostalgicPopulistMiltonSocial ServiceDomestic Policy Author:David Brooks
“Trump is holding together the shakiest coalition that you could conceivably govern on. It is a conservative, populist alliance that agrees with itself on very little.” LittlesTogetherTrumpAgreeConservativeAlliancesCoalitionsPopulist Author:Van Jones
“At the same time, you had Barack Obama as a president. You had Hillary Clinton on track, all the Democrats looking good. And, you know, Donald Trump was just an entertaining buffoon to watch. And, over time, you came to realize that Donald Trump was appealing to a lot of people with his populist message. And, slowly, I think, even as a show, we started shifting in tone as the election started shifting.” PeopleThinkingKnowsShowsPresidentRealizingWatchesTrumpMessagesElectionClintonDemocratTrackBarackToneEntertainingLooking GoodShiftingPopulistBuffoons Author:Trevor Noah
“There had been a free and open election in Haiti in the early 1990s and president Jean-Bertrand Aristide won, a populist priest. A few months later came the expected military coup - a very vicious military junta took over, of which the United States was passively supportive. Not openly, of course, but Haitians started to flee from the terror and were sent back and on towards Guantanamo Bay. Of course, that is against International Law. But the United States pretended that they were "economic refugees."” StatesLawCoursesPresidentUnitedUnited StatesEconomicMilitaryMonthsElectionInternationalTerrorExpectedPriestsRefugeeSupportiveViciousHaitiInternational LawPopulistCoupsGuantanamoGuantanamo Bay Author:Noam Chomsky
“Donald Trump was appealing to a lot of people with his populist message.” PeopleTrumpMessagesPopulist Author:Trevor Noah
“I believe in and love the populist, nationalist, antiglobalist rebellion happening all over the West.” BelieveI BelieveHappeningsAnd LoveWestI Believe InRebellionPopulist Author:Milo Yiannopoulos
“People are less certain of their national identities or their place in the world. It starts looking different and disorienting. And there is no doubt that that has produced populist movements both from the left and from the right in many countries in Europe.” PeopleWorldDifferentCountryCertainLeftDoubtMovementIdentityEuropeNo DoubtPlaces In The WorldPopulistNational Identity Author:Barack Obama
“Take, for example, there is a right-wing populist uprising. It's very common, even on the left, to just ridicule them, but that's not the right reaction. If you look at those people and listen to them on talk radio, these are people with real grievances.” PeopleIfsLooksRealLeftCommonExampleWingsRadioReactionsRidiculeRight WingGrievanceUprisingPopulistTalk Radio Author:Noam Chomsky
“I think Donald Trump is trying to use populist rhetoric to cover up a right-wing agenda.” ThinkingTryingUseTrumpWingsAgendasRhetoricRight WingCover UpsPopulist Author:Charles Schumer
“Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Marine Le Pen seem to have no respect for the institutions that were created after World War II, and they see a potential alliance of populists around the world who would fight Islam and restore a certain semblance of traditional values.” WorldWarSeemsCertainValuesFightingTrumpInstitutionsIslamTraditionalAround The WorldWar Of The WorldsPensWorld War IiWorld War IMarinePutinAlliancesNo RespectPopulistSemblanceTraditional Values Author:David Brooks
“The rise of populist parties such as the Five Star Movement in Italy and the Front National in France are rocking the political certainties of the last decades. And that also affects the economy.” LastsPoliticalStarsPartyEconomyFiveFrontsMovementDecadesCertaintyFrancePopulist Author:Nicholas Bloom
“The U.S. and, to a certain extent, countries in Europe as well, have experienced growing inequality within their population for decades - a small group of people own the lion's share of the wealth. Populists take advantage of this, and their policies are extremely hard to predict. And this has serious consequences. Companies shy away from risk, postponing their investment decisions in times of uncertainty, the stock markets get nervous and unemployment threatens to increase.” PeopleWellsCountryHardCertainWealthDecisionCompanyGrowingRiskGroupsSharePolicySeriousConsequenceEuropeAdvantageIncreaseInvestmentPopulationDecadesNervousInequalityUncertaintyShyLionsUnemploymentSmall GroupsPopulistPostponing Author:Nicholas Bloom
“I'm not a populist. But I try to present complicated issues in such a way that people know where I stand.” PeopleKnowsWayTryingIssuesComplicatedPopulist Author:Martin Schulz
“This isn't Republican versus Democrat. This is not right versus left right now. This is not conservative versus populist. This is globalist, America-is-not-first establishment versus those of us who believe America is first. This is an establishment/anti-establishment fight that's going on.” FirstsBelieveAmericaFightingLeftRepublicanRight NowDemocratConservativeEstablishmentVersusPopulist Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Whether you're a populist; whether you're a limited government conservative; whether you're libertarian; whether you're an economic nationalist - we have wide and sometimes divergent opinions. The center core of what we believe, that America is a nation with an economy, not an economy just in some global marketplace with open borders, but we are a nation with a culture and a reason for being.” BelieveSometimesReasonGovernmentAmericaCultureNationsOpinionEconomyEconomicConservativeWideLibertarianCoreBordersMarketplaceLimited GovernmentDivergentPopulist Author:Stephen K. Bannon
“I see a continuation of the populist outrage that prompted the Brexit and sparked the Bernie Sanders campaign.” CampaignsOutrageContinuationPopulist Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“You had a socialist get 47 percent of the votes in the Democratic primary: Bernie Sanders. You have an outright white nationalist populist [Donald Trump] who is now in the White House with an authoritarian strongman who has no regard for facts, no regard for tradition, and no regard for the Constitution. That is what you get when you import third world conditions. You get third world politics, and that's where we are now.” WorldFactsHouseWhiteConditionsTrumpPercentTraditionVoteThirdsConstitutionRegardDemocraticPrimariesWhite HouseSocialistThird WorldImportsPopulistWorld Politics Author:Van Jones
“Trump is much, much worse than people understand. In his ideal world, you would have an alliance between Trump, Putin, Marine Le Pen, maybe a right winger might knock off Merkel in Germany, and you'd have this sort of, essentially, a nationalist populist alliance that can only be made sense of when seen as a right-wing, white nationalism against the world. Because, who do they want to fight? They want to fight Asia and China, they want to fight Latin America and Mexico.” PeopleWorldWantMadeMightAmericaFightingWhiteTrumpIdealsWingsChinaGermanyNationalismPensLatinMexicoAsiaMarinePutinAlliancesRight WingLatin AmericaPopulistIdeal World Author:Van Jones
“If the media is just a cheerleader for an authoritarian populist, who isn't that popular, then we're in a sorry state. The media has to be critical - it has to scrutinize it, it has to call out things.” IfsStatesMediaSorryCriticalPopulistCheerleaderScrutinize Author:Irvine Welsh
“These days you can't write anybody off. If anybody is a right-wing populist, you can't write them off now because that is the rising tide of our time.” IfsWritingWingsThese DaysOur TimeRisingTidesRight WingPopulist Author:Irvine Welsh
“Donald Trump, when he gives his speeches, talks like a populist. And he talks to middle class and working America and poor people. But when he governs, at least in his first 40 days, he governs like a hard-right guy.” PeopleGivingFirstsHardAmericaGuyPoorClassMiddleTrumpSpeechMiddle ClassPoor PeoplePopulistRight Guy Author:Charles Schumer
“The old battle between Christian Democrats and Social Democrats is now meaningless, not least because the social structures that underlay those parties, the church and the unions, have faded away. Nationalists and populists understood this change earlier; now the rest of the political world needs to understand that the political lines have been redrawn and it's time to change.” WorldNeedsHas BeensChristianPoliticalSocialChurchLinesPartyBattleUnderstoodStructureUnionsDemocratMeaninglessFadedPopulistSocial Structure Author:Anne Applebaum
“Steve Bannon, the White House chief strategist, appears to imagine an alliance between Trump, Le Pen, Geert Wilders and Nigel Farage. Call it the populist international, a fraternal association of the nationalist right, binding people who want borders, across borders.” PeopleWantHouseWhiteImagineTrumpInternationalChiefsBordersPensWhite HouseAssociationAlliancesBindingStrategistPopulistWilderFraternal Author:Anne Applebaum
“I, personally, think Trump improved pretty dramatically and certainly changed pretty dramatically over the last hundred days. He's less of the populist. He's more of the corporatist. He's less incompetent. He's trying to at least turn toward people who can put a decision-making process. And he's trying to adjust to the job. And so whatever one thinks of him, he is certainly a learning creature.” PeopleThinkingTryingChangedPopulist Author:David Brooks
“Canada has had populist movements in the past, virtually since its inception. I don't think the central Canadian elites have ever understood populism at all, particularly the Western version of it.” ThinkingPastWesternPopulistInception Author:Preston Manning
“Has Donald Trump ever called himself a populist? I don't think Donald Trump's ever called himself a populist. I think other people have called him a populist, and other people have called Steve Bannon a populist. But I don't think Trump's ever called himself that and he may not know what one is, within the political realm or definition. He's not a political person, and that I think is leading to many people having just a devil of a time translating the guy, analyzing the guy, predicting the guy, projecting the guy.” PeopleThinkingPoliticalGuyDevilTranslatePopulist Author:Rush Limbaugh
“It was an easy thing to tax for a young country. And then gradually we moved to property taxes, manufacturing taxes, and the income tax was the answer to a populist demand: Let's go after the rich guys. We got into World War I, and they raised the rates and started taxing the rich. Then we got into World War II, and that's when they taxed everybody, because they just needed more revenue.” WorldWarCountryGuyEasyRichTaxesMovedPropertyRateWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War IIncome TaxPopulist Author:T.R. Reid