Word: populistic
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...articulate speaker who has never held elected office, Bauer sounded a populist note in his speech, spending most of his time attacking the "corporate elites" he said were responsible for the current policy...
Invoking the legacy of populist Wisconsin politician, Robert M. LaFollette, Feingold said the "very few with the resources should not control the political process...
Instead of rallying Republicans, the Balkan showdown has exposed how divided the party is over America's duties in the post-cold war world. After days of tap dancing, by late last week the Republicans had cleaved fairly cleanly between two camps: those in Pat Buchanan's populist, isolationist fortress who were arguing we should leave Europe to the Europeans, and those who, belatedly in some cases, fell in step behind Arizona Senator John McCain, the former prisoner of war in Vietnam, and called for NATO to fight on even harder to preserve the credibility of U.S. power...
Still, observers say he commands a solid 20% core of support. Some of that may be the result of the undiluted populist propaganda that is fed relentlessly through the state media. And some of it may simply be old-fashioned pride and nationalism, emotions no less powerful and gripping in Yugoslavia than in any other country. But that loyal core is enough, in the words of one Serb, to allow Milosevic "to steal any election." It also gives him the causes and crises that make him irreplaceable. "We are for Slobo because he is for us," explained Velimir Djurica...
...facts of the situation are considered with an objective eye, these activists, The Beastie Boys, Rage Against the Machine and all those concertgoers last week, simply look like fools. They've all been enchanted by a charismatic criminal and their own romantic delusions that they are fighting a great populist battle against the injustice of The Man. In reality, they've senselessly allied themselves with a cold-blooded sociopath who deserves the sentence that was handed him. They can hang all the "Free Mumia" posters they want, but Mumia Abu Jamal is a cop killer and Mumia should...