Word: neopopulist
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...ruthless intensity is nicely camouflaged by his courtly manner, carries a blue-ribbon resume. He served as Education Secretary to George Bush and earlier won acclaim as two-term Governor of Tennessee for reforming education and attracting high-paying jobs to his state. Alexander's stump speech touts a neopopulist plan to transfer $200 billion in federal programs ranging from welfare to law enforcement back to the states, communities, churches and families that handled those responsibilities before the New Deal...
...earn the stature that now eludes them, the candidates will have to offer the voters themes and ideas rather than merely their personalities. Some are moving tentatively in that direction. Downplaying protectionism, Gephardt is now stressing neopopulist rhetoric that pits the heartland against the Eastern elites, symbolized by Archrival Dukakis. But for the moment, Biden is the Democrat in the spotlight, as he tries to demonstrate leadership in the battle against Bork. He can make his name as a defender of Democratic values, but he risks displaying an inappropriately intemperate style...
...supply-side tax cuts, Kemp believes his appeal within his party's right wing is strong enough to allow him to broaden his base. Instead of simply sounding the Reaganite creed of self-reliance, Kemp stresses that government has a role in caring for the needy. Kemp's neopopulist rhetoric sometimes sounds as if it were lifted from a Jesse Jackson sermon. At a party conference in Grand Rapids last month, for example, Kemp complained, "It's pretty tough to pull yourself up by the bootstraps when you have no boots to begin with...
VIRGINIA: It was a classic confrontation between a rambunctious neopopulist, Lieutenant Governor Henry E. Howell, 53, and a staid member of the state's conservative elite, former Governor Mills E. Godwin, 58. Affluent suburbanites paid $1.65 per drink at genteel Godwin cocktail parties, while blacks, rednecks and young people paid nickels and dimes for beer and soda pop at Howell gatherings. To complicate matters, both men originally were Democrats, but Howell ran as an Independent and Godwin as a Republican; the disenchanted and disarrayed Democrats fielded...
Godwin, campaigning on a theme of traditional conservative "stability," attacked Howell as a tool of labor union bosses, a supporter of massive busing, and a McGovern sympathizer. Howell, espousing a new "responsiveness" in government, apparently failed in his neopopulist attempt for a coalition of liberals, blacks, and blue-collar workers...