The word "populism" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to political movements that emphasize the needs and wants of ordinary people. For example, "The presidential candidate ran a populist campaign, appealing to the everyday concerns of the voters".
Orbán has already expressed his sympathy for "capitalism with Asian values"; if the European pressure on Orbán continues, we can easily imagine him sending a message to the east: 'We are defending Asia here!' Today's anti-immigrant populism has replaced direct barbarism with a barbarism that has a human face.
But didn't the follow-up blueprint People and Programmes (which he also helped to write) pull back from the pure Birtism of Extending Choice, blending it with pragmatic populism?
Here's the key characteristic of populism: populists contrast an image of a pure, homogeneous people with that of a corrupt or at least, uncaring elite that colludes with those who are not properly part of the national body politic.
In fact, technocracy and populism reinforce each other: liberal elites become ever more distrustful of democracy; illiberal people seek to defy them.
The strange thing about the move to radical populism in politics is how much, so far, the young have deferred to the systems designed by the old.
To the delight of his audience he said that Labour had "cowered" before media barons and had been guilty of illiberal populism on civil liberties.
Instead of a battle of ideas, the EU has been marred by a vicious circle between anti-EU populism and technocratic agreements between member states that are afraid of their citizens.
The bizarre flirtation in the campaign with "economic nationalism" and the cheap populism of appearing anti-foreign investment must be chucked out now.
By unleashing the dynamism of the market, the economic rationalists of the 80s relentlessly dissolved established traditions and old hierarchies, a destruction that sometimes enabled a faux neoliberal populism.
Only one thing is necessary for populism: the notion of the people as a morally pure, undivided whole, permanently threatened by elites and minorities.
With a bold program of economic populism and a fierce rejection of the corporate money now seemingly required by candidates, Sanders is considered a long-shot to secure the Democratic nomination.
