The word "populist" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who appeals to the wants and needs of ordinary people, typically in opposition to the elite or establishment. For example, "The populist candidate promised to reduce taxes for the middle class and increase government spending on essential services."
Pride strikes a populist balance, but there's clearly an appetite for that serious, difficult, unsexy social realism too.
Around 500 politicians, officials and businessmen were imprisoned in a populist campaign against waste and corruption.
O'Malley sparked a little more enthusiasm from the crowd of 250, with the kind of stirring, populist speech that hinted at comparisons he might want made with the current president.
Plus Ukip, the nearest thing Britain has to an English nationalist party, the Republicans' Tea Party wing and anti-immigrant populist parties.
It has become conventional wisdom: populist parties are on the rise across Europe, from left (Jean-Luc Mélenchon) to right (Marine Le Pen), and in widely different national and local contexts – from Bradford to Budapest.
That can mean both those at the very top of the social ladder and those at the very bottom: in the populist imagination, elites work hand in hand with "global finance capitalism" but also pay too much attention (and money) to the poor who do not really belong to us and yet somehow live off us.
Sanders, a self-described "Democratic socialist", will mount a populist campaign focused on income inequality, campaign finance reform and fighting climate change.
But Mr Farage bundled up leaving the EU with a campaign focused on migrant workers from eastern Europe and wider anxieties about the level of immigration to construct a populist anti-establishment movement that at the election probably damaged Labour as much as the Conservatives.
During this time, he created a centralised and well-disciplined rightwing populist party, which is probably one of the most professionally managed organisations of its kind in east-central Europe.
The populist conservative also reminded attendees that "he had won Iowa in 2008 and if the rest of the country had been as smart as Iowa, we would not be in the trouble we are in now".
It can also be very exciting, as on those rare occasions when a populist campaign captures a major party.
