Populist party

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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Anti-immigrant populist party Reform UK now leads in the polls, surfing on the theme that the British state is broken, and pointing to a record number of asylum seekers crossing the English Channel on small boats.

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For conservatives, it’s a test of whether they’re truly the populist party they claim to be.

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Until a few weeks ago, the Left party looked doomed when one of its leading lights, Sahra Wagenknecht, went off and founded her own, more populist, party with eight other MPs.

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Sahra Wagenknecht, who this year set up a new anti-migrant far-left populist party, echoed the AfD's rhetoric.

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But the most extraordinary aspect of the Populist Party was its coalition.

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