Word: populist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they are often unaware of its less obvious left-wing root in the midwestern radicalism of the old Populist and Progressive Parties . . . The normal, middle-road, educated American that you meet in literary-academic circles assumes automatically that McCarthy is a fascist, out to found the usual storm-troop dictatorship as described in the sociology texts based on European history ... I view McCarthyism as so dangerously seductive to America, and such a very real threat to our liberties, because it is so different from fascism and from analogies with Europe...
...McCarthy basically is not the fascist type but the type of the left-wing Populist or Jacobin agitator, the barn burner, the Wild Man, by an infallible instinct and not 'by accident' subverting precisely those institutions that are the most conservative, venerable and patrician-from the Constitution, the most decorated or paternal generals (Marshall, Eisenhower, Taylor, Zwicker) to the leaders of our most deeply established religions and precisely the most ancient of our universities...
Pipes points to the importation of liberalism, socialism, nationalism, and utilitarianism from the West as intellectual ammunition for the Russian Populist movement that eventually shook the Tzarist regime. Perhaps the USSR's current eagerness to maintain control over buffer states in Eastern Europe is as much a desire to have a barrier against information as for military protection along its western border. For the European borderlands people in the Soviet Union have once shown themselves vulnerable to disturbing Western ideas of natural rights and democratic law, and they could succumb again...
Langer won Republican nominations for Senator in 1940 and 1946 over the bitter opposition of the regular North Dakota Republican organization. His support comes from the remnants of Non-Partisan League, a populist organization of which he is a leader. In his feud with home-state Republicans, Langer used to get considerable help from his close political friend, President Truman. He now wants to use his position as head of the Judiciary Committee to force the Republican Administration to give him a tight hold on all federal patronage in North Dakota...
...Friends of Mine." At the University of Nebraska, Johnson enrolled as a premed, but his heart belonged just as much to Latin and Greek. He devoured Tacitus and Thucydides ("Two friends of mine"), took up Sanskrit, learned German, threw himself into the Populist cause. He also submitted to the drilling of a stiff-backed young military instructor named John J. Pershing.* By the time the Spanish-American War broke out, Johnson was ready to enlist...