That's funny, I use DDG and when I searched "define populism" that's the result that came up from DDG itself, which they say came from Wordnik. https://www.wor

That's funny, I use DDG and when I searched "define populism" that's the result that came up from DDG itself, which they say came from Wordnik. https://www.wordnik.com/words/populism https://www.wordnik.com/words/populism I disagree with your sense of unqualified populism implies authoritarian populism. In my experience it's used without qualifiers to describe both Trump and Bernie. I suppose whether you think those two are authoritarian probably depends a lot on your own political leanings. But generally it means "fight the power." Or in Trump's case, "drain the swamp [0]." Here's a NYT article that, having skimmed, seems reasonable to me. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/27/magazine/how-can-donald-trump-and-bernie-sanders-both-be-populist.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/27/magazine/how-can-donald-t... [0]: This comment is not intended to confer any positive feelings towards Trump or imply that he did anything other than make the swamp even swampier. It was only in reference to his rhetoric