Populism

With its rhetoric of "the 99%" (the people) against "the 1%" (the elite), the international Occupy movement was an example of a populist social movement.

As defined by the Nolan Chart, populism (and totalitarianism) is located in the lower left.

A cartoon from 1896 in which William Jennings Bryan, a staunch supporter of populism, has been swallowing the symbol of the Democratic Party of America.

Populism is a name for a kind of political movement. Populists usually try to make a difference between common people and "elites" (meaning usually, top classes of people) . Populists may think of wealthy people or well-educated people as belonging to the class of elites. Populists may also call those who have been working in government for a long time "establishment" and count them as elites too. A theme of populism is that the common people lack certain privileges that the elites have, or that commoners cannot do certain things the elites can do. The populists see themselves on the side of the common people. They want to help the common people get some of the rights and privileges of the elites.

Right-wing populism

Right-wing populists take some of the values of right-wing parties:

They see immigration as good for the elite and bad for the people.
They are against globalization and foreign ideas.
They are against what other parties believe: In Europe, they often think, that European values are based on Christian ones, and that Islam, or its values are bad.

Left-wing populism

Left-wing populists share some of the values of left-wing parties:

They believe in social justice
Often, they are against capitalism, globalization, and social injustice
Unlike right-wing populists who want to exclude certain foreigners, they focus on including unprivileged social groups.

Left-wing populism is common in Central and South America.

Populism Media

The Bolivian government of left-wing populist Evo Morales and his Movement for Socialism has been described as the "prototypical case" of ethnopopulism.^[1]
Protesters from the Tea Party movement, a right-wing populist formation in the United States
The Argentine political theorist Ernesto Laclau developed his own definition of populism. He regarded it as a positive force for emancipatory change in society.
A 2012 rally by members of the left-wing populist United Socialist Party of Venezuela in Maracaibo
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has been cited as a populist leader who has undermined liberal democracy upon taking power.^[2]
Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg, 1936
Ilya Repin's painting, Arrest of a Propagandist (1892), which depicts the arrest of a narodnik
European national parliaments with representatives from right-wing populist parties in July 2023:Template:Farbindex Right-wing populists represented in the parliamentTemplate:Farbindex Right-wing populists providing external support for governmentTemplate:Farbindex Right-wing populists involved in the governmentTemplate:Farbindex Right-wing populists appoint prime minister/president

[FOOTNOTEMuddeRovira_Kaltwasser201772-1] Mudde & Rovira Kaltwasser 2017, p. 72.

[FOOTNOTEMuddeRovira_Kaltwasser201791-2] Mudde & Rovira Kaltwasser 2017, p. 91.

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