Word: populistic
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...because he's suddenly vulnerable. While he's the most durable Republican in Virginia history, his nomination for a fourth term is now in doubt. James Miller, 53, once Ronald Reagan's Budget Director, is challenging Warner from the right in next week's primary by playing the populist against Warner's clubby image as a moderate Senate elder. The contest is full of ironies. For one, Warner supported Miller against Oliver North when the two were vying for the state's other Senate seat in 1994. For another, in that campaign it was Miller who cast himself...
Russia today is a postcommunist, not a democratic society--and that is partly Yeltsin's fault. He is the only politician of sufficient stature in the post-Soviet period who could have created an "anticommunist" party committed to reform. Instead he chose a politics of charisma, believing his populist appeal would be more effective in ensuring support for reform than would the enlistment of local activists to promote his views. By allowing reform to become identified with one powerful personality--his own--Yeltsin failed to create a constituency for change that could survive if he became unpopular. And now that...
...snickering in February when Republican candidate Pat-the-Populist-Buchanan connected with some voters by lashing out at big corporations. AT&T and its highly paid chairman, Robert Allen, became Buchanan's favorite whipping boys after the company announced a three-way breakup that would eliminate 40,000 jobs...
Penick had a far more important matter pending with the state government: the extension of branch banking. Arkansas' banking law, dating from Reconstruction, prohibited bank branches anywhere beyond the city limits of the city where the bank was incorporated; this was a populist measure designed to encourage and protect small, local banks and their communities and prevent statewide domination by the bigger banks in Little Rock. Branch banking was the single most important issue on the Twin City political agenda, because the bank was incorporated in North Little Rock. All it could do was gaze enviously at its rivals across...
...Gingrichism seems spent, as his party's presidential candidates battle it out in the primaries, offering various versions of supply-sideism, populist anticapitalism and everything else other than budget cutting and fiscal restraint. And Bill Clinton? For the moment, he looks like the odds-on favorite for re-election. What a difference a few days make...