Unpopular Populism

France is not the only EU country with an unpopular leader.

Heath was deeply unpopular.

President Trump is very unpopular.

The system is unfair, inefficient, and unpopular.

After normalizing ties with neighboring countries, he began to address regional issues, softening Uribe s radical and unpopular positions.

Privatization efforts are often highly salient politically and unpopular.

This would have been impossible for an unpopular war.

With at least 80 of the population dependent on government salaries or grants, the attacks have proved very unpopular.

After all, banks remain deeply unpopular in all developed countries.

But even the best advertising cannot sell an unpopular product.

An unpopular war would have made military recruitment difficult in any circumstances.

Positioning himself as the candidate who represents a sharp break with today s unpopular politics is the only means to escape that fate.

What is essential is the right combination of stability and financial aid, even if the latter is unpopular with the German public.

As a result, George was unpopular with his Dutch brother in law William of Orange, who was married to Anne's elder sister, Mary.

Indeed, in countries like Egypt and Tunisia, government and parliament alike were unpopular.

Honest discussion of unpopular ideas is a key feature of an open society.

In countries where they hold power, such as Spain, they are now very unpopular.

Britain s Labour government is just about as unpopular as it is possible to be.

The hugely unpopular Shah they installed was swept away in the Islamic revolution in 1979.

While business interests are not as openly discussed in Tunisia, they are no less unpopular.

It means taking responsibility for hard strategic choices even when these are unpopular at home.

The obvious lesson to be drawn from 1979 is that America unwisely rested its entire strategic relationship with Iran on the shoulders of an unpopular dictator.

That will be just as unpopular as bailing out the Greeks, and probably much more expensive.

Even in Washington, there is not much to be said for being partisan, unpopular, and wrong.

The good news is that Chinese policymakers are vigilant and prepared to bear down on incipient bubbles sometimes with unpopular interventions such as the recent monetary moves.

Second, the country s new leaders will have to initiate unpopular measures aimed at revitalizing the ailing economy.

You can complain that redistribution and industrial policy were economically inefficient, but not that they were unpopular.

With the end of Ahmadinejad s second and final term fast approaching, it seems unlikely that the disgraced, unpopular president will abandon his efforts to destabilize Iran s ruling establishment.

This is partly because Liberals have usually thrived by winning seats from Conservatives when Conservative administrations are unpopular.

Increasing taxes is not only unpopular it can be counter productive, given already high taxation in many countries.

Recent history shows that political appointees often fail to take courageous or unpopular steps to stabilize the economy.

They bridle at a government that must do unpopular things and that also looks narrow and mean spirited.

During the 1950s Winchell favored Senator Joseph McCarthy, but he became unpopular as the public turned against McCarthy.

A political party infused with a normal instinct for self preservation would produce a fresh face to run in a proper presidential election, replacing an unpopular incumbent and his cronies.

Though his actions in the battle were admired, the war became unpopular with the British public, who felt that the king and Carteret were subordinating British interests to Hanoverian ones.

That is why Obama could appoint the highly talented but politically unpopular Summers, the former president of Harvard University.

But, as peripheral Europe can now attest, this is a cumbersome, painful, and politically unpopular form of economic adjustment.

But, they fear that calling for spending cuts will be unpopular, unlike, they hope, demands to balance the budget.

Some may look to unpopular and unjust foreign adventures in Iraq as examples of the futility of lawful political action.

NAFTA and other previous trade agreements are unpopular. So the Obama administration s argument is apparently, We have learned from our mistakes.

And bank bailouts, involving the direct use of public money to recapitalize failing institutions, are even more costly and politically unpopular.

With the defeat of al Qaeda and the Taliban America s only visible goal, it is no surprise that the US remains enormously unpopular among Pakistanis, forcing Musharraf to maintain his perilous balancing act.

Along with the enterprising teenagers who built Napster, academics like Lorrie Faith Cranor at Carnegie Mellon mapped out the shape of potential new networks with lofty names like Publius, through which unpopular views could be circulated outside of easy governmental control.

But fighting terrorists requires an entirely different kind of spying from uncovering traditional spies, or neutralizing unpopular oligarchs such as Mikhail Khodorkovsky.