Populist vs Conservative - What's the difference?
populist | conservative |
A person who advocates democratic principles
A politician who advocates specific policies just because they are popular
A person who advocates populism
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Democratic
(of a political policy) Put forward just because it would be popular
Of or pertaining to populism
A person who favors maintenance of the status quo or reversion to some earlier status.
(US, economics) A fiscal conservative
(US, politics) A political conservative
(US, social sciences) A social conservative.
Tending to resist change or innovation.
Based on pessimistic assumptions.
(US, economics, politics, social sciences) Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism.
(US, politics) Relating to the Republican Party, regardless of its conservatism.
(British, politics) Relating to the Conservative Party.
* 1830 , Quarterly Rev.
(physics, notcomp) Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity.
Having power to preserve in a safe or entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
As nouns the difference between populist and conservative
is that populist is a person who advocates democratic principles while conservative is a person who favors maintenance of the status quo or reversion to some earlier status.As adjectives the difference between populist and conservative
is that populist is democratic while conservative is tending to resist change or innovation.As a proper noun Conservative is
conservative Party.populist
English
Noun
(en noun)- Critics suggest that Fernández, an unashamed populist and nationalist, is seeking to deflect attention from social disharmony at home.
Adjective
(en adjective)Alternative forms
* (Bosnia, Serbia ): (l)Noun
Declension
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English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* traditionalist * right-wingerCoordinate terms
* moderate, liberal, progressive, libertarian, centristAdjective
(en adjective)- The curriculum committee at this university is extremely conservative .
- At a conservative estimate, growth may even be negative next year.
- We have always been conscientiously attached to what is called the Tory, and which might with more propriety be called the Conservative , party.