How to pronounce “populist” in English

to scapegoats toward scapegoats and we're seeing that we saw it in the first week of the Trump Administration and the progressivepopulist movement to the extent that there is such a movement is pro-democracy it's it it it looks to strengthening Democratic institutionsrather than overriding them technology is good we cannot be and

Well, populists are different in that.Populists say, the only reason why we have any real political problems is that the political leader's corrupt and self-serving.And so actually, all commonsense, ordinary, good folk know what to do politically.

And it's much too intrusive to ask that.and populist and reform era, in the way that so many of the dislocations we're having now, extremes of sudden new wealth from sudden new technologies,

And so I'm less-- I suppose just instinctively a bit less keen on trying to control the public discourse away from sortThe populist left has always had a response and said the crash would always happen.

They began programs to drive people into what amounted to concentration camps.Nothing populist about it.

It was not like in the jihadist channels and also the neo-Nazi channels, I couldn't really identify myself with much of what they were discussingactually having far right populist parties sometimes even echoing these echo chambers and ideologies, using the same language in parliaments.

Some of these objects were familiar to Americans in urban markets.But even this populist might not know what these objects were.They imported spectacular fireworks, ones that Americans had never seen before, unusual collapsible lanterns, Chinese puzzles, Chinese toys,

It's down to roughly 6%.He's populist, he's authoritarian, and he's nationalistic.

of resolving this. So there's an increasing feeling that the economic policies and the way that we resolve political disputes are illegitimate, and that's leadingto the rise of populist leaders, whether on the right, like Trump or Brexit movement, or on the left, like Jeremy Corbyn in the United Kingdom.Given all this, I think we increasingly feel like the only path out is these sort of reactionary populist movements

we're back to translating everything and putting everything in the vernacular, and we're singing everything in English the way that people did only 70, 80 years agowhen people wanted populist opera, but didn't have subtitles yet, didn't have the technology.There was a period where that happened.

They own Singha. They're connected to the royal family.There was some populist shit that was going on for a long time that kind of got axed, and that was one of the things that was very populist.

And I hope that's kind of where we're going.Especially a populist Democrat might have a very different view in all of this than a populist Republican.

understand that one of the ancillarycasualties of this populist Revolt is the mainstream media and a lot ofso-called opinion leaders and that's a big casualty and it's not sudden it's been happening for

He grew up legitimately poor.He was a populist.He was a pragmatist, which is to say he had no moral center whatsoever.

That's -- everybody can do.That is populist. And we have a -- because we have right-wing populism which means decreasing taxes when you can't afford to do so at the expense of deficits, and wehave leftist populism, otherwise increasing expenditure which you can't afford to do so, at the expense of government -- of deficit.

referred to as a populist and one of the reasons why the populace language became

Recep Erdogan, who's, I think, rightly often called an authoritarian populist-- the prime minister and president, now, of Turkey-- doesn't appear to be overly fond of anybody who isn't a Muslim.There are some populists who advocate for very right-wing economic policies, either in their rhetoric or at least in their actual actions.And there's others, like the late Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, who advocate for very left-wing economic policies.

Now, once they actually get into government, it turns out that all of the big promises they made are difficult to keep.And so populists end up saying things like, who knew that things could be so complicated?Who knew that health care could be so complicated?

this like totally new right populist message, but, you know, down to the trade protectionism and even like the

We saw a few weeks ago an election in Italy where nearly 2/3 of the electorate voted for very radical populist parties.You saw the rise of populist leaders in Central Europe, in Poland and Hungary, where democracy is now actuallyunder threat. And you see it even in countries that were once supposed to be safe.

So what do we do about all of that?that Bernie Sanders is a populist, by the way.

So what do we do about all of that?might act out in that kind of populist support.

And Gaius Marius was a populist politician in Rome.

I think theater is the most populist art form that there is.

Theater should be a rowdy populist experience, Very often, that's driven by the programming.

But we're also seeing actual voting behavior changing more and more.You're seeing the rise of authoritarian populists, not just in the United States but in many democracies around the world.We saw a few weeks ago an election in Italy where nearly 2/3 of the electorate voted for very radical populist parties.

So the political system needs to be responsive to what people actually want.I think the way to understand populists often is as a form of illiberal democracy, of democracy without rights--at least initially. Take the case of a Swiss referendum a little less than a decade ago on the building of minarets.

or Italy, and in countries like Poland and Hungary and India as well.One of those is that populists do much better in parts of the country that are less economically affluent, much better in partsof a country where there's been less recent investment, even much better in parts of a country

Common sense is enough to deal with all of our problems.And I, the populist, have a unique ability to speak for people's ideas, for people's desires, for what theyreally want. As Donald Trump said at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in 2016, "I am your voice."

these people they they've been promised for years politicians have come in and said oh yes we're going to have all kinds of uh new jobs for you and then nono new jobs happen look when I talk about populist and the populistRebellion I want you to really understand and this is maybe it could be

response to their work but sort of the populist response to the work and eventually that changed um there are other artists you know like velvet

But it was like a strange moment of populist expression that happened online.

And it could also be the reason why you see this populist surge in places like France-- Marie Le Pen-- and in the US

United States and across the United States this populist movements and progressive movements were mass

And so the very people that are now electing populists like Trump so that they will smash through these legal

have been that people tried to vote for right wing populists.

Why should we be concerned about these kinds of political figures?It would be tempting to say that these populists have nothing in common with each other.Donald Trump doesn't appear to be overly fond of Muslims, I think it's fair to say.

The country is not going to be destroyed if the other people take a turn at governing.Well, populists are different in that.Populists say, the only reason why we have any real political problems is that the political leader's corrupt and self-serving.

like the FBI and the Department of Justice, as enemies of the people.And we see exactly where that leads in countries where authoritarian populists actually manage to put through their program in a disciplined way.Take the case of Hungary, a country which political scientists, five years ago, considered a consolidated, a safe democracy.

Republicans become less remarket oriented, more populist and more enthusiastic about things like tariffs. And I say enthusiastic. The enthusiasm seems to come from the White House. Congress for

you know, kind of use populist messaging and simplistic messaging and emotional messaging and would, you know, be able

you know, kind of use populist um messaging and simplistic messaging and emotional messaging and would, you know,

We can become more nationalistic, more populist, because we want to become more defensive of what it is that's around us, because when it comes to sharing

And is there any sort of light at the end of the populist tunnel that we seem to be going down at the moment?

It wouldn't surprise me at all if the natural offshoots of the populist movements that we see just now is a demand for more direct accountability

So what do we do about all of that?been more of a successful leftist response to this instead of an authoritarian populist response?

I'm very hostile to terms like nationalist, populist.

language to describe it it's like it's a it's like a a populist kind of art that moves away from sort of the virtuosity

I think the invention of radio was a technology that helped demagogue populist dictators