Synonyms for populism
ˈpɒp yəˌlɪz əmpop·ulism

Princeton's WordNet

1. populismnoun

   the political doctrine that supports the rights and powers of the common people in their struggle with the privileged elite

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1. List of paraphrases for "populism":

   demagogy, demagoguery, populist

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1. Steffen Mau:

   Many people experienced unemployment, very long periods of insecurity or even existential crisis and the result of that is that they developed a habit of' keeping and defending' and are not willing to accept more social change, populism falls on fertile ground, people are very much willing to say' they defend what we have, they defend our culture, they defend our borders,'.

2. Pope Francis:

   I am on the side of the bishops' conference, it's not easy, but populism is not the solution.

3. Giuseppe Conte:

   The political forces that make up this government have been accused of being populist and anti-system..., if populism means the ruling class listens to the needs of the people ... (and) if anti-system means to aim to introduce a new system, which removes old privileges and encrusted power, well these political forces deserve both these epithets.

4. Pippa Norris:

   And then we had Brexit in the middle of 2016, and if that hadn't been held during the refugee crisis, I do think the results could have gone the other way, but we should remember that President Trump was both a consequence and a cause of the changes around that time. In Europe, autocratic populism was already rising.

5. Bilal Mehboob:

   He's a great orator. Still a large number of people continue to support( Imran Khan). This is populism in its full glory.