Look Beyond Nationalism To Understand the Resilience — and Resurgence — of Populism

Trump isn’t the only politician often labeled as a populist who is doing well despite elite scorn.

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President Trump leaves a campaign rally at Erie, Pennsylvania. AP/Sue Ogrocki

“Populist politicians and parties,” writes the Ethics and Public Policy Center’s Henry Olsen in the Spectator, are “rapidly gaining strength and power across the developed world.” They’re doing so despite the opposition and angry scorn of political and intellectual establishments of left and right and with a resilience that they find baffling.

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