Sentence examples for be using a populist from inspiring English sources

But they now seem to be using a populist issue to undermine him.

"Homosexuality [in Africa] came out of the box a long time ago and it will be used by populists," he said.

If I wanted to eyeball a stream of populist rubbish I'd be using Facebook.

Merkel is using populist arguments instead of wise arguments," said Sigmar Gabriel, leader of the opposition Social Democrats, who have said they would support the stability mechanism.

That is also one of oral history's implicit ambitions: using a populist style to tell populist history.

The notion that a populist movement is using her name and economic philosophies to mobilise their broader political goal is laughable.

He said the Ugandan leaders at the forefront of the anti-homosexuality bill are using the issue to build populist, xenophobic support.

In 1965, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. described how the strategy of separating people with common financial interests by agitating their racial differences was used against the populist movement at the turn of the century, explaining that "the Southern aristocracy took the world and gave the poor white man Jim Crow".

In Italy, anti-elite populists are using the internet to empower citizens and upend representative government.

In Poland and Hungary, populist leaders are using that same playbook to destroy the free media, to undermine independent institutions and to muzzle the opposition.

"It is truly hurtful that once excellent British-Polish relations are on the verge of being shattered by populist politicians, who are using Poles as scapegoats," the letter said.