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populism
1. Any of various, often antiestablishment or anti-intellectual political movements or philosophies that offer unorthodox solutions or policies and appeal to the common person rather than according with traditional party or partisan ideologies.
2. Grass-roots democracy; working-class activism; egalitarianism.
3. Representation or extolling of the common person, the working class, the underdog.
4, The political doctrine that supports the rights and powers of the common people in their struggles with the privileged elite.
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