“Yeah, we shouldn't deny that there's been a little bit of a populism-creep into the party. I still think the populism is far worse on the Left. I think it's far more pervasive – the Medicare for all, gonna give everything away for free type of message is really inherently impossible. That being said…”— Dan Crenshaw, dailywire.com
“What the peoples strive for is the opportunity for a little more food in their stomachs, a little better clothing on their backs, a little firmer roof over their heads, and the realization of the normal nationalist urge for political freedom.”— Douglas Macarthur, americanrhetoric.com
“Like [Andrew] Jackson's populism, we're going to build an entirely new political movement. It's everything related to jobs. The conservatives are going to go crazy. I'm the guy pushing a trillion-dollar infrastructure plan. With negative interest rates throughout the world, it's the greatest opportu…”— Steve Bannon, hollywoodreporter.com
“I was raised in a desegregated neighborhood. It—it—the north side of Richmond is predominantly black, OK? I went to—I went to an integrated school, a Catholic school. I served in the military. I don't need to be—I don't need to be lectured by a bunch of—by a bunch of limousine liberals, OK, from the…”— Steve Bannon, cbsnews.com
“Trump is a product of a seething populism and nationalism that is the driving political force.”— Steve Bannon, news.com.au
“The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.”— Theodore Roosevelt, books.google.com
“It shows how faithful the American people are to the true spirit of Democracy and how safe American institutions are as long as the American Government is genuinely Democratic and rightfully mindful of the welfare of the plain people.”— William Randolph Hearst, amazon.com
“Presidentialism can work fine when there is basic consensus over what it means to be a citizen and what it means to be a nation. But the United States no longer enjoys such a consensus.”— Shadi Hamid, theatlantic.com
“The Amazon-Hachette dispute mirrors the wider culture wars that have been playing out in America since at least the 1960s. On the one side, super-wealthy elites employing populist rhetoric and mobilizing non-elites; on the other side, slightly less wealthy elites struggling to explain why their way…”— Keith Gessen, vanityfair.com
“In the late 1930s, the Federal Reserve Board refused to admit it was a government institution. So Patman convinced the District of Columbia’s government to threaten foreclosure of all Federal Reserve Board property; the Board quickly produced evidence that it was indeed part of the federal governmen…”— Matt Stoller, theatlantic.com
“At the same time that the nation has achieved perhaps the most tolerant culture in U.S. history, the destruction of the anti-monopoly and anti-bank tradition in the Democratic Party has also cleared the way for the greatest concentration of economic power in a century.”— Matt Stoller, theatlantic.com
“In 1974, young liberals did not perceive financial power as a threat, having grown up in a world where banks and big business were largely kept under control. It was the government—through Vietnam, Nixon, and executive power—that organized the political spectrum. By 1975, liberalism meant, as Carr p…”— Matt Stoller, theatlantic.com
“Popular discrimination is concerned with functionality rather than quality, for it is concerned with the potential uses of the text in everyday life.”— John Fiske, amazon.com