Word: populist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flak jackets and tie-dye shirts" in the '60s. (Presumably because he was too busy screwing up in law school.) Now an adviser, probably Pat Caddell, is saying that Biden's latest troubles will "free" him to "get into being himself." The new self is an aggressive "populist, anti-Establishment" candidate and arch-defender of the middle class. Who knows? Maybe he'll bounce back, stay in and run a strong race. If he does, I have some hot George Wallace speeches he might be interested...
...years later. He had two favorite maxims: "All politics is local," and the main issue for Democrats must always be "work and wages." By sticking to those guns, he became the living embodiment of the Democratic Congress and, even to many of his foes, a lovable crusader for populist and compassionate values...
Since he led his populist party to victory in 1985, Garcia, 38, has diminished the power and influence of the country's two major conservative parties. Now Garcia's opponents have an issue over which to do battle and, in Vargas Llosa, a persuasive crusader. "If the government takes control of the financial life of this country, it is going to have such untrammeled power that democracy will become completely destabilized," argues the writer. "Crazy Horse will fall! Crazy Horse will fall!" shouted the audience at Vargas Llosa's rally, using the nickname Garcia has earned because of his penchant...
None of them could have dreamed that Jesse Jackson, candidate for President of the U.S., would, 50 years later, set up his Iowa headquarters on that forgotten corner. What strange force brought a man of world renown, a fire- breathing latter-day populist, to that dot of earth, that little corner of a small town that was never witness to anything more grand than a merry-go- round, a high school band concert and an ice-cream social...
...could be dismissed as from the people on the fringes of American society. Probably not. Instead the muted criticism of the racist messages reflected the desire of many congressmen to believe in the "Ollie" myth. Those who continue to refer to the telegrams want to go on worshipping the populist myth without facing up to the myth's darker, racist side...