[wideawake]

OK, now I know what you mean by that term. I think your meaning is different from the usual meaning, which is one who opposes the “elites.”

That's certainly a connotation of the word "populist" - for example, the class warfare so integral to populist political nostrums.

Both John Edwards (a left-wing populist) and Pat Buchanan (a right-wing populist) bitch and moan about free markets and "CEO pay" and NAFTA and "the elites."

And, of course, one of them is a millionaire trial lawyer and the other is a millionaire Beltway journalist.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Or the peasants like me who opposed last year’s amnesty bill.