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“[Tommy] Douglas and [Agnes] Macphail were transparent and principled, and they based their critique upon logical arguments, not fabrications and falsehoods. They were also honest people who did not use their position as leaders to enrich themselves. They were populists but certainly not racists like Donald Trump or Viktor Orbán, or demagogues such as Vladimir Putin or Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey.”

Canadian writer Dennis Gruending on the shifting definition of populism, noting the current crop simply claim to represent the people in order to manipulate the public