Populism is not an ideology. Populism is rhetoric.
The little man, as he suffers under the yoke of despotism, of croneyism, of nepotism, and the big-money, big city, godless power brokers who rule his life and his livelihood... yes the little man would not call it rhetoric, but TRUTH, my friend. And America is waking up to this TRUTH, from sea to shining sea... from the city worker living in the slums of Detroit, to the Appalachian coal miner, to the struggling family farmer in Iowa. We shall take this nation back. Back to the people, of whom, by whom, and for whom our government exists! It is our divine right, and Providence shall favor our undertakings, just as He did in 1776, when our great forefathers threw off the last evil despotism from our shores!
Rhetoric? Rhetoric, you say?! Hardly.