Politically Speaking, Populist Isn’t Popular, But Conservative Is

Populist is the least popular of five common political labels, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of likely voters. It’s more fashionable to be viewed as a conservative, less so to be called a progressive, the label adopted by many liberals.

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Also, there's a great article in the Wall Street Journal called A Short History of American Populism" where author Micahel Barone reminds us that "Andrew Jackson argued that government interference in the economy would inevitably favor the well-connected."