Populist Movement facts for kids
The Populist Movement, also known as the People's Party was a movement in late-19th century America. It grew out of groups such as the Grange Movement. It was largely a movement of farmers, who were poor and felt big businesses, such as railroads, were to blame. Its leaders included Thomas Watson and William Jennings Bryan. The populists had a series of demands known as the Omaha Platform. Here are some of the things the Omaha Platform wanted:
- An income tax
- Direct election of United States Senators
- Free coinage of silver (at a rate of 16 ozs. of silver to one ounce of gold) to encourage inflation
- Government ownership of railroads and other large businesses
Though the Populists never and only controlled a few state governments for a few years, many of the demands of the Omaha Platform, such as the income tax and direct election of Senators, were later done as part of the Progressive Movement
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The Bolivian government of left-wing populist Evo Morales and his Movement for Socialism has been described as the "prototypical case" of ethnopopulism.
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Protesters from the Tea Party movement, a right-wing populist formation in the United States
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The Argentine political theorist Ernesto Laclau developed his own definition of populism. He regarded it as a positive force for emancipatory change in society.
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"Hear the wrath of the people", a member of the Indignados, a Spanish left-wing populist movement, in Puerta del Sol
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has been cited as a populist leader who has undermined liberal democracy upon taking power.
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Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg, 1936
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Ilya Repin's painting, Arrest of a Propagandist (1892), which depicts the arrest of a narodnik
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Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder and leader of the French National Front, the "prototypical radical right party" which used populism to advance its cause
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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro with US President Donald Trump
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Rodrigo Duterte of Philippines and Narendra Modi of India. They are both considered populist leaders.
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See also
In Spanish: Populismo para niños
