Word: populist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NCPAC isn't marching alone. A new breed of self-styled "populist" conservatives, many supported by the Moral Majority and its clones, is attacking what has always been politically unattackable since the Great Depression: the welfare state...
THOUGH THE Democratic battle has attracted most of the media attention so far, the Republican contest between old-line Brahmin guru Elliot L. Richardson '41 and self-made-millionaire-businessman-cum-populist-conservative Ray Shamie has provided a more substantive debate on President Reagan and the future of the ailing state Republican organization...
...friction--many Republicans use the term "war"--between the liberal Yankees and the populist-conservative ethnics continues, with each wing blaming the other for the Party's inability to make a dent on the state political scene...
Natsios, considered one of the most astute politicians in the party, is a strong supporter of Vice-President Bush, and has few kind words for the populist-conservative movement that controlled the party platform in Dallas. He predicts that most of the Republican brass will support the more moderate Bush in the '88 Presidential sweepstakes...
...used as a populist club to pulverize the old elitist verities: grace, wit, precision, proportion, coherence. No walking of the fine narrative line for the apostles of anarchy, whose police-siren song goes like this: Wake up, pal! Get out of your fusty drawing room and hit the streets! The Aristotelian unities are dead! Modern life is chaos, and this time around, art is life set to a whomping backbeat that never lets up. When society has fallen apart, don't pick up the pieces, just admire them where they fall...