Example sentences for: populism

How can you use “populism” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • With the federal deficit removed as an issue by 1996, Perot's coalition of Snow Belt good-government reformism and give-'em-hell hillbilly populism dissolved.

  • But as the public places its faith less in orthodoxy and more in the marketplace of ideas, creationists are developing a hardier strain of populism that appeals to progressive concepts such as "questions," "skepticism," and "investigation."

  • Populism has more often found a home in the Highland South than in the coastal "black belt," which has been dominated since colonial times by the elitist conservatism of ruling-class Bourbon families and their allies.

  • If Perot's message appealed to Yankee and Nordic progressives in the northern tier, his anti-establishment populism, and no doubt his flamboyant persona, appealed to the kind of voters whose ancestors had cheered on Huey P. Long and "Sockless Jerry" Simpson.

  • It's to Steve McMahon's credit that Take A Stand 's populism is entirely palatable.


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