In the campaign for next year's Presidential election, the current polling leader is a left-of-center populist named Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
A leftist populist named Andrés Manuel Lopéz Obrador, who is campaigning against the wizened political establishment in Mexico City, has surged ahead in the polls, promising to fight systemic corruption and to stand up to Trump.
The magazine does not really figure out who, precisely, is doing what, where the money for the Tea Party-affiliated events Palin speaks at comes from, or the exact nature of the groups with vaguely populist names associated with them — but there's enough for one to want to know more.
This and other stories about bells standing up for the little man perhaps helped inspire Alexander Herzen, the great pre-Revolutionary intellectual populist, to name his influential clandestine journal Kolokol: "The Bell".
In November, Mr. Goldner formed a public advocacy group and gave it a populist-sounding name: Back to Work Illinois.
In "Face" a populist demagogue named Lonesome Rhodes Andy Griffithh) is unleashed on the viewing public by cynical network executives, who quickly see the error of their ways and stuff their rabble-rousing genie back in the bottle before he can do too much damage.
The network unleashes its most rabid attack dog, a faux-populist journalist named Wade Lawlor, to lead the assault, which extends to the private foundation funded by the grandfather to lend a hand to immigrants and refugees, and to encourage their children by establishing book clubs for little girls with a passion for reading.
McIntosh co-owns a new-music label with the ironic name Populist Records; his first solo album is titled "Hyenas in the Temples of Pleasure".
There was not even any celebration from the real winners, the militants and voters of the Movimento 5 Stelle (Five Stars? How did Italy end up with a populist party whose name sounds like a luxury hotel chain?).
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