Word: backlasher
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...beer brawl had several analogies with events in Britain over the past decade. In the early 1970s the big companies monopolized the United Kingdom markets by buying up many smaller breweries, with the result that many beers became bland, sterile and uninteresting. This led to an enormous consumer backlash. Subsequently, the surviving small breweries, which used traditional techniques for producing flavorful rather than pasteurized beer, have flourished...
...broken promises of a glorious international role contributed to the humiliating loss of confidence in American power that reached its nadir with the Iran hostage crisis. White pinpoints those trends--economic aimlessness and national impotence, along with the increasingly potent reign of television--as leading America to its conservative backlash of 1980. That landslide, to White, was the ultimate repudiation of impotent Democratic goodwill...
...psychological backlash against the press has also helped Nixon. From the moment that Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward began their pursuit of Watergate in the Washington Post, some Americans have subscribed to the theory that a liberal press was out to undo the results of the 1972 Nixon landslide. The implications of that belief are troubling: they carry the suggestion of a sort of cultural civil war, between Nixon's America and a suspect elite that trafficks mostly in information and services...
They may also have to help out Nebraska's first-term Governor Charles Thone, 58, a colorless conservative who barely campaigned for this month's primaries and who claims this race is his last. Thone, apparently underestimating the backlash among the state's financially strapped farmers, drew only 62% of the G.O.P. vote against two challengers. Farmer Stan DeBoer, a founder of the American Agriculture Movement, captured 31% of the Republican votes, criticizing Thone for his support of Reagan's farm and economic policies. On the Democratic side, a political novice, Robert Kerrey, 38, swept...
...June 15 Commencement, the Watergate Era began, as several Republican cat-burglars rifled through the offices of the Democratic National Committee in Washington. Eventually, the grossly overextended presidential power that had allowed Vietnam to occur was scaled back by Congress and by public pressure; only now has the backlash set in, with a strong presidency returning to vogue...