What is populism, what does the term really mean and what did Hillary Clinton say?
Hillary Clinton expressed her views on how the current US immigration policy solved - here's the lowdown...
POPULISM has been a political topic for a long time, but recently it has been talked about more and more.
Among the talkers is Hillary Clinton. Here's the lowdown...
What is populism?
Although there is no single definition of the term, populism is the idea that society is separated into two groups at odds with one another - "the pure people" and "the corrupt elite".
Populists can be anywhere on the political spectrum, all ranging from left-wing to right-wing.
Populism, he says, is often combined with a "host" ideology, which can either be on the left or right.
Very few politicians describe themselves as "populists", and in many cases the term can be used as a shorthand insult.
“There are solutions to migration that do not require clamping down on the press, on your political opponents and trying to suborn the judiciary, or seeking financial and political help from Russia to support your political parties and movements."
She also said that Brexit was "largely about immigration".
She added that the rise of right-wing populists is “a psychological as much as political yearning to be told what to do, and where to go, and how to live and have their press basically stifled and so be given one version of reality”.