But he faced too much resistance to his perceived radical populism to win election and, having lost, wore the indelible taint of failure.
It was a mostly marginal phenomenon in the Cold War period, excepting a surge of radical right-wing populism during the early 1970s, and has again attracted some media attention since 2000.
Janša and his Social Democratic Party party have been noted by political scientists for radical populism, nationalistic and xenophobic rhetoric.
In short, he supported a kind of radical populism that would eventually break the framework of parliamentary inaction and introduce radical reforming.
The post-Marxist social scientist Rudi Rizman described Janša's political rhetoric as radical populism, close to demagoguery.
The United Left coalition, which had finished second in the 1985 elections, was thrown onto the defensive by his radical populism.
This implied a radical populism that would threaten the allegiance of the people of Liechtenstein to ruling Prince Franz Josef II.
Deeply affected by these early experiences of direct action and radical populism, Hansen referenced the Association throughout his career.
These are not inveterate mavericks like Mr. Yeltsin, who built his politics on a radical populism.
From working-class Vienna he absorbed a strain of radical populism that he later twisted into a German nationalist political platform.