Word: populists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TENNESSEE'S RAY BLANTON, 44, a roughhewn, former Democratic Congressman in the populist tradition, found himself matched against one of the few attractive young Republicans to emerge in 1974: Lamar Alexander, 34, a lawyer who had helped Senator Howard Baker and retiring Governor Winfield Dunn win elections. Alexander's main problem turned out to be general dissatisfaction with Dunn's Republican administration, which had doubled the size of the budget to $2 billion and presented the state's eastern region with a prison instead of the medical school it had wanted. All this, plus a strong...
...Lester Pearson, Longley became disillusioned by the ineffectiveness of both major parties. Running independently, he conducted his campaign with the same hard-driving efficiency that marked his business success. Dozens of college-age volunteers, many recruited by his two daughters, Sue, 18, and Kathy, 21, gave the campaign a populist image, while substantial financial support came from associates in the insurance business. Most important, his almost messianic pitch that efficient business-type management could shave $25 million from Maine's state budget was convincing enough to gain him a 40% plurality in the polls (compared with Democrat George Mitchell...
Most striking, the analysts found that conservatives were sharply divided on what to do about inflation. The surveys established that far from being a homogeneous group, conservatives were divided into what could be called the more classic (58%) and the more populist (42%) constituencies on the basis of the latter group's angry, resentful feeling that it has been left out of the American mainstream. The populist conservatives also tended to be less well educated and less affluent-45% are in economic distress, compared with 28% of the classic conservatives...
...populist conservatives more strongly supported reimposing wage-price controls (50% v. 31% of the classic group). They also tended to be more in favor of loosening up credit (51% v. 40%), giving tax incentives for business (44% v. 36%), cutting defense spending (40% v. 28%) and ending wheat sales to Russia (69% v. 60%). But about 70% of both conservative groups agreed that taxes should not be increased to cut spending by individuals, and 40% of both groups thought that the federal budget should be balanced, even if it means increasing unemployment. In looking ahead, 55% of the populist conservatives...
Kissinger attributes the present crisis of leadership in the Western world-and the Soviet Union as well-to problems resulting from the process of industrialization. This had led to "bureaucratic immobilization" and "bureaucratic populist paralysis." England, Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy all suffer from it, although the U.S. does not. The new leaders hi France and West Germany, he believes, appear to have eased that problem there...