Is Hitler the only racist left?

[Louis VI the Fat]

'Populist' in common parlance does not mean a party which represents the populace at large, or represents the will of the people.

Populist is a pejorative term, for demagoguery, for 'easy' quick-fix solutions, for form over content.

This is why a populist party never refers to itself as such, no more than an environmental party refers to itself as 'tree-huggin' hippies'. Populism is not by definiton rightwing.

A populist party will always claim to represent the true will of the people, usually contrasted to an out-of-touch elite, or an even more sinister conspiracy.