varney sanders managed this trick among the evil conscious, non- gender stereotyping anti- capitalist beneficiary of capitalism in the last election [laughter] but it was always my impression that, in this case, the term populist was not by sanders or his followers but his rivals and the media, and their effort to establish standards in the public's mind as one of the many examples of not hillary who herself was presented to be popular but not populous. there are at least two sides of the negative association under which the term populist struggles. on the one hand, there is the issue of demagoguery. some commentators tell us that populous and demagogue are essentially synonyms though they rarely point out that the greek word demagogue meant a popular leader. the populist leader has said to for steak reason and moderation in order to stir the dark passions of the semi literate and spiritual on elevated populous, the people who eat mcdonald's hamburgers. on the other hand there's the issue of the unedifying soil upon which the demagogic leader is said to work. anyone who has looked int

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