Populist party

Cultural  

1. A third-party movement that sprang up in the 1890s and drew support especially from disgruntled farmers. The Populists were particularly known for advocating the unlimited coinage of silver. The party endorsed William Jennings Bryan, a champion of free silver, in the presidential election of 1896.

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Example Sentences

Take Nigel Farage, leader of the populist party Reform UK, who has known Trump for close to a decade, hosted him on his phone-in radio show and visited him in the Oval Office.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026

Khan’s populist party prevailed at the ballot box by relying on social media to evade state censorship and drive turnout while tapping into the dissatisfaction of Pakistan’s internet-savvy youth.

From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2024

A Newshub-Reid Research poll also released on Wednesday similarly found the populist party set to play kingmaker come election day.

From Reuters • Oct. 11, 2023

It was a populist party with brilliantly-marketed policies, which initially lifted the living standards of previously neglected parts of the Thai population, and which, for 20 years, gave it an unassailable edge over its rivals.

From BBC • Aug. 23, 2023

Hamlin Garland has finally crawled out of the populist party and has reappeared in Chicago fiercer than ever for the predominance of realism in literature and art.

From Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 by Thompson, Slason