The parallels extend beyond populism’s mistrust of experts. Both crises began with a rally-around-the-flag effect. As the virus tore through New York City in March 2020, the country broadly ...

Red Flag Arguments for Joining a War. Jun. 20, 2025. Subscribe; Login; The Corner Elections. A Populist on Pence’s Populism Speech. ... Populism is not a full-spectrum political doctrine.

If 2016 was the “populist earthquake” in which Donald Trump demonstrated that an iconoclastic, antiestablishment style of politics was possible in the United States, 2020 presented an ...

In 2016, support for populism erupted across the United States of America and catapulted Donald Trump into the Office of President. Furthermore, despite his defeat in 2020, Trump has returned as ...

One would be hard-pressed to find a region of the world that populism didn’t touch in the 2010s. The decade brought us the election of Donald Trump in the United States and the Brexit vote in ...

Populism is a political mindset that elevates “the people” over “the elite.” It is anti-big-corporations, anti-government, anti-mainstream-media, anti-internationalism, anti-cultural ...

Yet “populist” remains a dismissive, even pejorative descriptor in prominent liberal discourse, a polite way of hinting at bigoted fools wearing red trucker hats. Journalists surely know what ...

Julia Klöckner was seen as a controversial choice for Bundestag president — a role that traditionally requires a calm and neutral presence. But she is an outspoken figure with a taste for populist ...

Populism is not the practiced folksiness of a George W. Bush or Bill Clinton, whose man-of-the-people politics were merely a performance while his policies were always meant to serve moneyed ...

As the market goes bust, right-wing populism booms. Frank May / EPA. On average, far-right votes increased by 30% after a financial crisis, but not after “normal” recessions (that is, economic ...

The economic history of populism since 1900 makes clear that populist governments tend to be damaging. Our research dug beneath the anecdotes and found a common thread. To do so, we used an algorithm ...