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A lot of populists after populism died just became socialists. At the beginning of the 20th century, socialism looked like it was going to take off. It didn't, of course, but a lot of people thought it was going to.

Late 19th-century populists saw bankers and industrialists manipulating markets to enrich themselves at the expense of small farmers and labourers and favoured political candidates promising economic relief through free and unlimited coinage of silver.

In the late 19th century there was a major union organization, Knights of Labor, and also a radical populist movement based on farmers. It's hard to believe, but it was based in Texas, and it was quite radical. They wanted their own banks, their own cooperatives, their own control over sales and commerce.

Simply because something is a populist movement doesn't make it either good or bad.

I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful.

I come from a working class community in eastern Scotland, and I've always been a populist, though not a patronising populist.

Populism is dangerous.

Pundits talk about 'populist rage' as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.

With Donald J. Trump's arrival to power, many feel astonished by the growth of populism. Others analyze with extreme care the decline of companies that measure public opinion. I am saddened to watch the lack of temperament and political stability of those who 'represent' a trend or ideology.