populist

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Chávez-style populism, which in certain respects resembles earlier Latin American populist variants, is characterized by an enormous focus on the individual leader and his dominant power-similar to the paternalistic hacendado on the traditional hacienda.

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  1. noun A supporter of the rights and power of the people.
  2. noun A supporter of the Populist Party.
  3. adjective Of or relating to populism or its advocates: a populist aversion to business monopolies.

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  • The convention of the Democrats - who used to be known as the populist party of unions and disenfranchised subgroupings of every sort - looked positively elitist and more than a little pompous. —  Whirled Views with Dan Burrell
  • Chávez-style populism, which in certain respects resembles earlier Latin American populist variants, is characterized by an enormous focus on the individual leader and his dominant power-similar to the paternalistic hacendado on the traditional hacienda. —  CounterPunch
  • Only a nazi would think that a populist is a liberal. —  Drudge Retort
  • Jockeying for a populist issue, NDP leader Carole James has opted to slam Campbell's "gas tax." —  EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed
  • Zuma is seen much more as a populist, a kind of man in the streets, easy to talk to; politically, of course, a lot less academic. —  Democracy Now!
 

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