What might these similarities suggest about how populist leaders appealed to people in the 1890s

Since the extraordinary economic revolution that took place in North America in the final decades of the nineteenth century and the first of the twentieth century, various measures have been applied in the United States, which we rightly call populists. These have, in general, had a wide acceptance of the population, but - and this is very important - their results have not always been good. And, in some cases, they have had very damaging effects.