His words were soon echoed by our president, Roh Moo Hyun, whose reputation as a left-leaning populist was a source of concern in Washington when he was elected last year, but who is now adamant about sending 3,000 more troops to Iraq to join the 660 already there.
Paradoxically, however, it is a source for populist modernisations in other forms: Cole Porter's musical Kiss Me, Kate, the romcom 10 Things I Hate About You and Anne Tyler's latest novel, Vinegar Girl.
Geithner, meanwhile, was tossed to the populist mob by "financial industry sources" who told Reuters that "Obama's newest Wall Street crackdown was met with hesitation" by Geithner, who is "concerned that politics could be sacrificing good economic policy".
"But the open-source movement is a populist phenomenon, enabled by the Internet, and not a partisan force in any traditional sense of politics".
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Cooder's songwriting exhibits liberal and populist sentiments and draws on older musical sources such as broadside ballads and country blues.
"The ballot box is the only valid source of legitimation" for such populists, he told me in an interview in Budapest in May 2013.
Disagreement with the trend toward centralism was the main source of dissatisfaction among the Slovak Populists, a clerical party headed by Andrej Hlinka.
Ryley acknowledged that mainstream media is losing young audiences to sources such as Buzzfeed, with a populist style of news and stories as lists, but with a rapid expansion in consumption driven by technology there is room for everyone.
Dave Dobbyn is New Zealand's answer to Bruce Springsteen, a populist singer and songwriter whose homeland and countrymen are the source of his creative wellspring.
