Campaign 2016: Hillary Clinton's Fake Populism Is a Hit - Matt Taibbi/RollingStone

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165. Che was not a populist

He was a socialist. The two should not be confused under any circumstances. As an Argentine, he would, I imagine, take great exception to your association of him with the label given to Peron.

In Latin America, may politicians invoke populism in the tradition of the 19th century caudillo. There is often a great distance between rhetoric and policy. That, by the way, is not a comment about Mujica, who seems to have purposefully diverged from that tradition.

I did not say all populists are fascists. I said there has been some overlap between populism and fascism, as is evident in the state structures set up by Peron and Vargas.

Populism more generally is a top down movement that capitalizes on the frustrations of the people. It is anti-revolutionary and in that sense conservative. Che was a revolutionary.

I cited Wikipedia, not as any sort of definitive source but rather a short-hand reference.