In Michael Kazin’s “The Populist Persuasion” he states that Populism in its most basic definition is “ a language whose speaker conceive of ordinary people as a noble assemblage not bounded narrowly by class, view their elite opponents as self serving and undemocratic, and seek to mobilize the former against the latter.” If we are to define Populism in accordance with what Kazin states as “ the most basic and telling definition of Populism”, than yes the anti-Communist movement and the Populist party were ideologically aligned; but if we further investigate Populism it becomes evident that these two movement have very little in common. The Populist platforms range of constituents meant the party had a vast amount of different goals. among
