Word: populistic
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...several years now, the most powerful and mysterious force in American politics has been a free-floating populist rage. It's been directed at Washington and politicians this time, instead of at populism's traditional targets of Wall Street and businessmen. Stoked by radio-talk-show hosts, worshipped by fearful pols, the new populism created the movements for term limits and the balanced-budget amendment; turned Ross Perot's presidential bid from an eccentric billionaire's ego trip into a historic event; and ultimately led to last November's upheaval, in which Republicans won control of Congress for the first...
...work in this case is being done by an eclectic group of interests that represent, in effect, the new Republican alite. They are a seemingly combustible mixture of traditional business groups-heavily weighted toward small businesses-and decidedly populist organizations. Although the two sides disagree about many things, they share an antipathy toward government and a belief that Republicans should remain in power. And so far that has been enough to keep them together. The business groups around Boehner's table are the National Federation of Independent Business, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Home Builders...
...sought such laws for more than a decade. Corporations, said Representative Henry Hyde of Illinois, provide employment for the country. Hyde, who is the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, told the New York Times: "We shouldn't make an enemy or adversary of them just to satisfy some populist urge...
Peninsula's decision to go beyond words, or rather, below them, points to a larger crisis in American conservatism. The shrill, populist conservatism embodied by Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich is hostile to intellectual culture. That hostility is not utterly unfounded. It is no secret that academia has historically been antagonistic to the Right, and never more so (in America) than in the past score of years...
...mailman from the blue-collar town of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, Kasich, in an act of college rebellion upon reaching Ohio State University, rejected his Democratic roots in favor of the populist, antibureaucratic doctrine. But whatever complaints he may have about government, he nonetheless has spent his entire career on the public payroll. (``I'm going to end up in the private sector,'' he vows. ``At some point, I'm out of this.'') His first job after graduating from college in 1974 was as an aide in the state senate, and within four years he had won a seat there...