Word: populistic
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...commentator's populist, antitrade campaign helped him finish third in Arizona and North Dakota, and second in South Dakota...
Buchanan's message is a populist one of resentment, bigotry and reaction. But it appeals to working class Americans who fear for their jobs and for their future. The promise of international trade and future growth is lost on those Americans who see their old jobs disappearing. In this climate men and women look to someone to blame. A man like Pat Buchanan shows them...
...Populist Party that arose from that ferment was short-lived, but the common-man sentiments that it crystallized lived on. Separately or together they ran through the presidential campaigns of William Jennings Bryan and Prohibition, through Teddy Roosevelt's Progressives, the left-wing labor movement and the right-wing radio priesthood of Father Coughlin. And the Republican Revolution of 1994. "But the Republican populism of the past generation or so has been all antigovernment," says historian Alan Brinkley. "Buchanan is putting back the anticorporate elements...
...blue-collar ethnics to the Republicans in the '60s. So what would Buchanan do? "I'm not aware that he has proposed anything that would tie the hands of corporate managers," says Phillips. "Or require a new obligation to 'stakeholders' [for instance, employees] as well as shareholders." The Populist movement at the turn of the 20th century arrayed government power to counter corporate clout. How can the party of less government do that...
...November. Buchanan has made it clear that he will support the party's nominee in November, whoever it is. But after he's done accusing Dole of "hauling water'' for Big Business, can he get his troops to do the same? It's hard to put the populist genie back in the bottle. With their attention turned from Washington to Wall Street, will the disenchanted blue-collar voters drift back to the Democrats, who support free trade but will promise to do a better job of protecting them from its sharp edges? And there's a natural home for them...