Sarah Palin's Faux Populism By Jim Hightower, AlterNet. Posted September 11,... can be attached to someone like Palin, whose campaigns (lieutenant governor, governor and ...is sneer at community organizers, as Palin did in her nationally televised coming... expresses a bit of Biblical populism: "Jesus was a community organizer ... embody the vitality of modern populism, doing the essential grunt-level ...