A council led by the extreme right Republican Party – which promotes populist issues such as limited immigration and taxes, and the privatization of welfare institutions – drafted the document to be voted on this weekend.

Source: https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2023/1215/Swings-and-extremes-Chile-votes-on-new-constitution-again?icid=rss

And just before you nod off, you think how easily it could have completely gone the other way, had the populist, climate change deniers won state and national elections in the late 2020s and overturned policies to cut out carbon.

Source: https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-08-27/commentary-los-angeles-2043-an-optimistic-scenario-for-transportation

And there are caveats, enough to raise questions about whether this populist approach to public finance will draw much of a response.

Source: https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/1/16/23552880/chicago-social-bond-program-neighborhood-improvement-money

Argentines are voting in a presidential election that might see a far-right populist leader, who has vowed to overhaul the Latin American country’s ailing economy, emerge victorious.

Source: https://www.newsamericasnow.com/argentines-vote-in-presidential-election-amid-economic-woes/

At the UN biodiversity conference in Montreal in December, Guilbeault told Canada’s National Observer he’d “probably spent more time with my U.K. counterpart than any other,” despite Goldsmith coming from a “right-wing populist government.”

Source: https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/07/13/news/canada-climate-funding-wealthy-nations-backslide

But, in 2009, he ran what I would consider to be the first really populist illiberal campaign in Israel.

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-origins-of-netanyahus-all-systems-assault-on-israeli-democracy

Cardy said, however, that Higgs's embrace of Grasseschi, as well as former People's Alliance leader Kris Austin when Austin joined the PCs in 2022, amounts to a broken promise and a shift to a less diverse, more hard-edged, populist conservatism.

Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/christian-conservative-candidate-election-1.7066475?cmp=rss

Central planning, never out of fashion on the left, is now more popular than ever on the right thanks to the GOP's populist takeover.

Source: https://biztoc.com/x/e7ebd32797c0d093?ref=ff

"Condemning only the smugglers, as the center-right is doing now, is hypocrisy," said Laura Ferrara, a European Parliament lawmaker from the populist 5-Star Movement.

Source: https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/migrant-boat-breaks-up-off-italian-coast-killing-nearly-60-1.6289784

Consider the conflict between the new populist right and the woke left.

Source: http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2023/06/without-whistleblowers-west-is-lost.html

Dore is undeniably a left-winger; but in the rowdy spirit of the horseshoe, he has a populist appeal and is also a frequent guest on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show.

Source: https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2023/04/22/pinkerton-robert-f-kennedy-jr-takes-on-the-uniparty-with-a-pledge-to-put-americans-first/

Drawing on the charisma, celebrity, and political skills of his second wife, the actor Evita Perón, Col. Juan Perón won the 1946 presidential election, becoming the first populist leader in history to become a democratically elected head of state.

Source: https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/12/09/javier-milei-is-the-worlds-latest-wannabe-fascist/

Eskom’s debt, however, remains taxpayers’ problem and the ANC government’s cancellation of outstanding debt, as part of a populist election campaign, will put the already overtaxed middle class under even more pressure.

Source: https://southafricatoday.net/south-africa-news/gauteng/cancellation-of-power-debt-reinforces-culture-of-non-payment-contributes-to-hikes-in-prices/

Fed up with Vucic’s populist rule, tens of thousands on Monday marched through Belgrade and other Serbian cities in silence to commemorate the victims of the mass killings.

Source: https://www.newdelhitimes.com/serbias-mass-shootings-prompt-national-reckoning-for-war-scarred-nation/

For decades, Fox News thrived because the people behind it understood what their audience wanted and were more than willing to deliver: television news - or what Fox called news - from a populist perspective.

Source: https://kiowacountypress.net/content/tucker-carlson%E2%80%99s-departure-and-fox-news%E2%80%99-expensive-legal-woes-show-problem-faking-

He was a consummate populist, but he kept his promises.

Source: https://www.observerxtra.com/thailand-the-last-rigged-election/

His right-wing populist government has pursued increasingly close economic and diplomatic ties with over the last decade and concluded major agreements on purchasing Russian gas, oil and nuclear fuel.

Source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1727147/ukraine-war-viktor-orban-germany-tanks-oalf-scholz-leopard

In 2022, another populist Dutch politician, Pim Fortuyn, was fatally shot by an animal rights activist days before a national election.

Source: https://www.newser.com/story/342894/dutch-far-right-leader-assaulted-with-beer-bottle.html

In a presidential election that could well see Trump or fellow right-wing populist Florida Governor Ron DeSantis as the Republican candidate, the left will have nowhere else to go.

Source: https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1745993/biden-picks-his-2024-path-right-down-the-middle

In a shock for Europe, anti-Islam populist Geert Wilders records a massive win in Dutch electionsnbcnews.

Source: https://biztoc.com/x/3eecc1a9f09759a8?ref=ff