Word: populistic
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After the 2000 election, Democrats wasted little time getting down to the business of recriminations. The party’s centrist wing, represented by the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), argued that Gore lost because his populist pandering had turned off white-collar suburban voters. Liberal Democrats took the opposite tack, charging that Gore lost because he failed to rouse the party base...
...it’s not surprising that the Cambridge City Council has passed a resolution attempting to get Harvard to pay a larger share of property taxes. As property taxes in the city continue to rise, politicians have attacked Harvard in a populist bid to calm residents. But while it is true that Harvard’s tax exempt status saves the University millions of dollars a year, Harvard should not feel obligated to repay a debt that it does...
Fancy-pants fashionistas going populist may help Shepherd and his fellow starving students save a few bucks, but it’s not yet clear what’s in it for the designers. Creating an affordable clothing line is a difficult task; a designer must appeal to the masses while maintaining the reputation he has cultivated on the catwalk...
Veiled Motives. What’s more, the newspaper pushes its right-wing agenda under the guise of honest journalism. The Herald is innocently packaged as an easy-to-read page-turner and priced below the competition. Masquerading as some wholesome, populist hometown rag, the paper force-feeds its propagandistic, Murdochian worldview to unwitting consumers...
...instead of harping on what Ruy Teixeira, co-author of The Emerging Democratic Majority, calls "the same debate Democrats have been having for 20 years--should we be more populist or more centrist?"--activists from various factions may focus on working together against a common enemy. "Just because they lost, these people are not going to be any more disposed toward the Republican Party," says Teixeira. "We're seeing the emergence of a new Democratic Party. It's more pragmatic and less ideological. And it's unified in its desire to defeat a Republican Party that's widely viewed...