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Quotes About Populism

El líder populista, después de malgastar su herencia priista, regresa a su origen político para disfrutar del festín electoral de bienvenida. Como el hijo pródigo, retorna al seno familiar del nacionalismo revolucionario después de haber pasado unos años pecaminosos arrejuntado con la izquierda. Se regenera su fidelidad originaria y atrae los votos de priistas.
~ Roger Bartra
desde que López Obrador fuera candidato a la presidencia en 2006 y 2012, se reveló claramente como un político conservador. Pero su aureola populista confundió a muchos, que lo siguieron tomando como un líder de izquierda, incluso radical, amenazador para la derecha y esperanzador para los progresistas.
~ Roger Bartra
La oposición de izquierda... creyó necesario reconstruir la anatomía nacional, volver al nacionalismo revolucionario original (cardenista e incluso zapatista) y desarrolló una actitud populista de desconfianza ante la democracia electoral.
~ Roger Bartra
El populismo se enfrentó al priismo con métodos homeopáticos: más de lo mismo, pero en su versión primitiva.
~ Roger Bartra
Otro sector de la izquierda ha quedado aplastado por el abrumador conservadurismo de López Obrador. Desde hace años he explicado que este líder populista es un conservador que no tiene nada de izquierda. Y hoy se ha vuelto francamente reaccionario. En su partido ya casi no se perciben los signos vitales de la izquierda. Predomina allí un espíritu restaurador que sueña con volver al priismo de los años sesenta y setenta.
~ Roger Bartra
Nationalism may begin with ideas among the elite but its propagation involves having mass support. Initially, anti-colonial
~ Romila Thapar
If you wish the sympathy of the broad masses, you must tell them the crudest and most stupid things.
~ Adolf Hitler
Populists hate journalists, they hate teachers, they hate lawyers, but they tend to like rich people. There's something deeply consistent.
~ David Brooks
While the other candidates were memorizing all the countries in NATO, practicing their pronunciations of Arabic names, and learning the geography of Syria, Trump shut to the top of the polls with an opening speech about Mexico sending rapists and drugs to our country. Do not mistake me for a politician of nuance-- I'm going to tell you the truth.
~ Ann Coulter
There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics.
~ Edward Koch
Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.
~ Aristophanes
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
~ Aristophanes
We've got an outstanding justice system. Our judiciary are respected around the world. It is a key part of what we are as a country. It's an area where there is a strong political consensus behind that and perhaps in an era of populism it's important that we preserve those qualities.
~ David Gauke
To take on the forces of nationalism and populism, we need to rally a liberal movement that offers a positive, alternative vision for the kind of country we want to be.
~ Jo Swinson
I'm the leader that can be the rallying point for the liberal movement that we need to create to take on the forces of nationalism and populism, the likes of Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson.
~ Jo Swinson
I travelled to Germany to witness for myself what nationalism, populism and the breakdown of peace between the great European nations had done. Amidst the rubble I made great friends who have remained friends for the rest of our lives.
~ Betty Boothroyd
obsequious courting of the mob
~ Marcus Aurelius
You see a wave of populism in the world. There is something wrong. This maybe because of technology.
~ Ken Moelis
The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism. Ecopopulism. To change our laws and culture, the green movement justice, political solutions and social change.
~ Van Jones
he "rules" with a kind of Gaullist grandeur, testing the constitutional limits of office, while pursuing a politics of "daring, sacrifice," and "nobility."30 Above all, ideally the executive stands not for programs but for "virtue." That means, among other things, he is prepared to act in defiance of the popular will.
~ Sheldon S. Wolin
Donning the populist garb, Bhutto swore to bring about the biggest turnaround the ill- fated country had ever seen. He would restore democracy, frame a constitution, and establish the rule of law so that the people would never again be "under the capricious will of any individual.
~ Ayesha Jalal
In Germany, a country that for obvious reasons is far more attuned than most to the dangers of demagogy, populism, and nationalism, lawmakers have already proposed taking legal measures against fake news. When populist, nationalist fake news threatens the liberal democratic center, other Europeans may follow suit.
~ Toomas Hendrik Ilves
There are dangers to riding the tiger of populism.
~ Penny Mordaunt
Sabes cuál es el nombre contemporáneo de la perversidad? Se llama democracia. Si un chimpancé con un tambor llega a ser popular y gracioso, podría ser elegido presidente.
~ Santiago Gamboa