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populism

/pop-yuh-liz-uhm/US // ˈpɒp yəˌlɪz əm //UK // (ˈpɒpjʊˌlɪzəm) //

民粹主义,民粹,人民主义,民主主义

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of various, often antiestablishment or anti-intellectual political movements or philosophies that offer unorthodox solutions or policies and appeal to the common person rather than according with traditional party or partisan ideologies.
    • : grass-roots democracy; working-class activism; egalitarianism.
    • : representation or extolling of the common person, the working class, the underdog, etc.: populism in the arts.
    • : the political philosophy of the People's party.

Examples

  • There’s a reason populism has enjoyed a moment for the last decade or so.

  • Most dangerously, it creates a sense of injustice and resentment that has stoked the right-wing populism that is shaking the foundations of liberal democracy.

  • As a child growing up in Minnesota in the 1930s and 1940s, Mondale sat in the front row of his father’s small Methodist church, listening to sermons that mixed Depression-bred economic populism with a concern for community.

  • She staved off populism, welcomed refugees and calmly guided Europe through multiple crises.

  • The hollowing out of mid‑sized manufacturing cities in America’s Heartland has fueled the rise of populism on the right and left.

  • He has become the most radical pope in modern memory for his economic populism.

  • Cohen thinks maybe some economic populism could work, and that could be true in limited circumstances.

  • Will the party stand for economic populism, or will it welcome corporate and business allies?

  • In addition to his temperamental aversion to populism, Roosevelt also had a practical reason to be cautious.

  • This populism has left little room for Hamdeen Sabahi, the only other candidate in the election.

  • To discredit a new proposition it was only necessary to observe that it was as dead as Populism.

  • The whole program of Populism he now viewed as a "sudden, dangerous, and revolutionary assault upon law and order."

  • The mission of Populism did not end when free silver had been driven like a wedge into all the parties.

  • If we fail to pass this agreement, we will embolden the purveyors of false populism in our hemisphere.

  • In the days of Populism they were more open-minded than the Americans.