Populism may not lead to bipartisan cooperation, but it could herald a new focus in American politics. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ Funniest cap messages Get the USA TODAY app ...

He certainly ran as a populist and won as a populist but, a mere 100 days in, he is governing as a traditionalist. The Obamacare-replacement proposals are traditional small-government fixes.

An unmoored populism leads to scapegoating and the sputtering fury of the impotent. Breeding with nationalism, it submerges local loyalties and begets a blustering USA! USA! twister of nothingness.

Making the far-left assemblyman mayor of New York is like electing Senator Sanders president — maybe even worse.

In fact, populism is never amorphously “adversarian” and lacking in specific policies for change. Enforcing America’s immigration laws — a key plank in the Trump platform — is a policy.

Populism, from this perspective, is a "thin ideology,” which on its own is too insubstantial to provide a blueprint for social change. It differs from "thick-centred" ideologies such as fascism ...

While this is not unique to the USA, the US Congress enacted 138 laws and in 2007 while federal agencies set up 2,926 rules. The 138 laws are part of democracy, and the 3,000 rules govern many ...

Right populism blames the current political élite, not the economic élite, ... MD 21202 USA (410) 800-4295. [email protected]. Need to share something sensitive with The Real News?

American politics resembles a three-way scrum. An institutional center, dominated by a guardian class of elites, who manage pretty much everything in modern society, faces persistent assaults from the ...

But populism has failed us before, and it will fail us again. Instead, let’s rediscover the principles that made our democracy strong in the first place. Let’s choose pluralism.

Tucker Carlson is warning his audience that Joe Biden wants to “abolish the suburbs.” But the Fox News host’s defense of single-family zoning only exposes the fraudulence of right-wing populism.

Populism has triumphed as we return to being a self-governing, independent, normal nation. ... In most areas of our national life, Britain follows trends that are set by the USA.