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How to use populism in a sentence

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Populism means a political doctrine or philosophy that proposes that the rights and powers of ordinary people are exploited by a privileged elite, and supports their struggle to overcome this. Example: “In the early 21st century, the tide of populism in Western countries has been primarily driven by demographic shifts, deindustrialization, inflation, a hostile cultural climate, and a collapse in social cohesion.”

Examples of populism by meaning

nounA political doctrine or philosophy that proposes that the rights and powers of ordinary people are exploited by a...

  • In the early 21st century, the tide of populism in Western countries has been primarily driven by demographic shifts, deindustrialization, inflation, a hostile cultural climate, and a collapse in social cohesion.2025 May 2, Endeavour, “Against Slopulism”, in Counter-Currents, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2025

More sentences with populism

  • The rise of populism in an age of celebrification also plays into the coarsening of discourse.2025 January 30, Stephen Humphries, “An uncivil union: Can America break its addiction to violent rhetoric?”, in The Christian Science…. From the entry celebrification
  • Keep in mind, such thoughts are blasphemy in the world of crackerbarrel populism.2013, Wes D. Gehring, Will Cuppy, American Satirist: A Biography, page 60. From the entry crackerbarrel
  • Populism is the new model of cool; elitists, rather than teeny-boppers or bandwagon-jumpers, are the new squares.2012 April 6, Alexandra Molotkow, “Why the Old-School Music Snob Is the Least Cool Kid on Twitter”, in The New York Times Magazine, New…. From the entry bandwagon-jumper
  • But, fortunately the dichotomy between populism and philosophocracy is a false dichotomy.2007, Bonnie Steinbock, The Oxford Handbook of Bioethics. From the entry philosophocracy
  • In this chapter, I consider Donald Trump as an 'antisemantic' president and link antisemanticism to broader forms of populism.2022, Stephen Clingman, “Trump the Antisemantic, and the Boundaries of Populism”, in Merle A. Williams, editor, Cultures of Populism…. From the entry antisemantic
  • He worries that Abe is a bit shallow on policy matters, and a bit knee-jerkish in his populism.2006, The Oriental Economist Report, volumes 74-75, page 91. From the entry knee-jerkish
  • As well, the musical form connected a social text of populism and nonelitism to the members' positions as public personalities.1997, P. David Marshall, Celebrity and power: fame in contemporary culture. From the entry nonelitism
  • Manipulative populism is a predatory ideology.2022 September 4, Garfield Higgins, “Divisions, misinformation, and disinformation”, in Jamaica Observer. From the entry post-truthism
  • The 'pedia has a group of managers dedicated to the idea that experts are unneeded and that truth can be reached through populism.2004 December 8, Derek Lyons, “Re: Collecting Plastic Bottle Tops For Wheelchairs etc”, in alt.folklore.urban (Usenet), archived from the…. From the entry 'pedia
  • Victimage and populism work in conjunction.1994, Argumentation and Advocacy. From the entry victimage
  • Enkidu expresses the values of nature, matrilineal conservatism, and the populism of the assembly, the assembly of village elders from the days before military dictatorship.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London…. From the entry matrilineal
  • Is there going to be a moment where populism needs a new leader and you’re back to that cattle call in New Hampshire looking at different opportunities?2025 January 31, Ross Douthat, “Steve Bannon on ‘Broligarchs’ vs. Populism”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry cattle call
  • Academics are, apparently, “progressophobes” who chip away at the public's confidence in conventional politics and, through this, may have unwittingly created a vacuum that populism has filled.2018 July 8, “Are academics to blame for the rise of populism?”, in Times Higher Education. From the entry progressophobe
  • While high-status punishments have slowly driven out low-status treatment in Europe, harsh punishment became the ideal during the American Revolution that was more fanned by populism and puritan Christianity.2013, Liqun Cao, Ivan Y. Sun, Bill Hebenton, The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Criminology. From the entry fanned
  • The subdivisions of socialism (populism, menshevism, bolshevism) are of course very well known: there is an enormous and valuable literature, both in the Soviet Union and the West.1957, Atti del X Congresso internazionale, Roma, Congresso internazionale di scienze storiche, page 655. From the entry menshevism

Meaning of populism

  1. noun A political doctrine or philosophy that proposes that the rights and powers of ordinary people are exploited by a privileged elite, and supports their struggle to overcome this.
  2. noun The practice of appealing to the interests of the common people.

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Questions about populism in a sentence

How do you use populism in a sentence?
Populism is used as a noun. For example: “In the early 21st century, the tide of populism in Western countries has been primarily driven by demographic shifts, deindustrialization, inflation, a hostile cultural climate, and a collapse in social cohesion.”
What is a short sentence with populism?
“Manipulative populism is a predatory ideology.”
What does populism mean?
Populism means a political doctrine or philosophy that proposes that the rights and powers of ordinary people are exploited by a privileged elite, and supports their struggle to overcome this.

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