Maybe. At least if, as Matthew Yglesias suggests, "[p]opulism is a political style," not a specific set of policy proposals. This is why there are both left- and right-wing populists. Huckabee is the closest to the latter in the current Republican race, while John Edwards is the the closest to the former in the Democratic race. Huckabee at the very least has that folksy charm thing down. Or, as Kate Sheppard more cleverly puts it, "He's down to earth -- even if he thinks the earth is only 6,000 years old!" Which, in a way, helps. Populism at its core is not an intellectual endeavor. William Jennings Bryan was in some ways even more of a populist because he eschewed the scientific establishment and advocated a biblical literalist understanding of the world. So yes, Mike Huckabee is a populist. But he's the kind even Fair Tax advocates and creationist school board members can heart.
