populist
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Far-right populist Abelardo de la Espriella was narrowly elected president of Colombia, receiving 49.6% of ballots cast.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
Called “a love letter to the journey,” the book took readers on a ride through the places, faces and events that shaped a populist American music career for the East Tennessean.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
"He has shaped the image of the first populist president, the first acclaimed strongman of the 21st Century."
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
“He’s a phenomenon of populist politics,” Toth said.
From Salon ● May 29, 2026
For a good part of the eighteenth and all of the nineteenth century, the populist, light, tuneful Italian style of opera was what most people went to an opera house for.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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Macron, who attended the country’s top schools, “has become the embodiment of everything populists hate,” said Olivier Costa, a research professor at the Paris-based Sciences Po university and France’s National Center for Scientific Research.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
These shamanistic masks have long been a mainstay of populists.
From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2025
The former valedictorian of an elite Baltimore prep school and Ivy League graduate shared posts on social media from an eclectic stream of populists, entrepreneurs, neuroscientists, centrists and disruptors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2024
After key regional elections on Sunday in Germany conservatives and right-wing populists are celebrating.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2023
I've known idealists, among the populists, who married peasant girls out of principle.
From Yama: the pit by Guerney, Bernard Guilbert
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