Word: collared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...putting them back under the pressure of hard times that persist for some workers even in the good times for the stock market. Blue-collar voters, most of them white and male, have been crucial to the G.O.P. coalition since the late 1960s, when they started to abandon the Democrats because of everything called liberalism--meaning, roughly, racial integration plus sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. So long as the economic grievances of those voters were secondary to their distaste for the '60s and its aftermath, the G.O.P. could court them without compromising its pro-business orthodoxies...
...last month by AT&T. "You could tell how painful this chop was to [AT&T chief Robert] Allen; he makes $5 million a year and his stock option went up, like, $5 million that day." O.K., says Kevin Phillips, the Republican strategist who predicted the shift of blue-collar ethnics to the Republicans in the '60s. So what would Buchanan do? "I'm not aware that he has proposed anything that would tie the hands of corporate managers," says Phillips. "Or require a new obligation to 'stakeholders' [for instance, employees] as well as shareholders." The Populist movement...
...after he's done accusing Dole of "hauling water'' for Big Business, can he get his troops to do the same? It's hard to put the populist genie back in the bottle. With their attention turned from Washington to Wall Street, will the disenchanted blue-collar voters drift back to the Democrats, who support free trade but will promise to do a better job of protecting them from its sharp edges? And there's a natural home for them in Ross Perot's anti-NAFTA Reform Party, if it decides to run its own candidate for President...
...constituency for the Republican Party. As early as 1970, he was advising Nixon to exploit the roiling economic anxieties of the middle class for political gain, the same voters to whom he is singing his siren song now. "We should aim our strategy primarily at disaffected Democrats, at blue-collar workers, and at working-class ethnics," Buchanan told Nixon, according to Nixon's 1978 memoir. As a speechwriter, Buchanan used Vice President Spiro Agnew as a kind of ventriloquist's dummy for his white-hot resentments of the political and media establishment. "We would never trust such powers over public...
Buchanan, who championed the blue-collar worker, promising to stop sending our jobs to China and Mexico, was appealing to some like dairy farmer Stewart Yatton, who said, "Free Trade and GATT are going to send us to hell...