Today’s world has a great increase in populism. Populism is a counter- enlightenment movement that calls for direct sovereignty of a country’s “people,” usually an ethnic group or a class.
Rudy Giuliani’s revelation during an interview that “Truth isn’t truth” has stunned many political pundits over the past few days.
The question of who will be the Republican candidate for governor was settled this week with Jeff Colyer’s concession to Kris Kobach.
Early in my father’s administration, when he and my mother flew to Rancho del Cielo, the ranch they had bought in the 1970s that was his retreat, I drove up to join them for a day or two.
Some in the press use the term “populist” as a synonym for “popular” or for any new political movement outside the traditional parties.
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