populist
A person who advocates populism (a movement against ruling elites who are presumed not to act in the interests of the ordinary citizen).
Other meanings
A politician who advocates specific policies just because they are popular.
A person who advocates democratic principles.
Related words
- antipopulist
- ecopopulist
- flopulist
- macropopulist
- neopopulist
- prepopulist
- pseudopopulist
- sadopopulist
- slopulist
- technopopulist
- sadopopulism
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “populist” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.