Word: populists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...preach a sermon of inclusion aimed at blacks, Hispanics, blue-collar families and other blocs normally considered Democratic property. Partly because of his own failings as a candidate, partly & because he never untangled his jumbled economic theories into a clear line, Kemp was unable to stretch Reagan's populist-tinted conservatism into the future...
...people." In his stump speeches, he sounds off about engineering fundamental change rather than "tinkering around the edges." Gore does have a feeling for how such forces could affect America's future. Yet at the moment, just as the campaign spotlight hits him, he is latching on to various populist code phrases that hardly do justice to the message he could convey...
...Gore had a major advantage in this battle of mock-populist converts: a television-advertising budget more than double the size of Gephardt's. In one TV spot, Gore angrily declared, "The corporations of this nation have to understand that they are American corporations, and they've got to start investing more money here for a change, and creating more jobs here for a change." In the shoot-out on the Southern airwaves, Gephardt was simply outgunned and outmaneuvered by Gore. As Joe Trippi, a top Gephardt adviser put it, "It was like there were two televisions, and ours...
...Democrats need to call back a true mainstream populist, one who is enormously popular and larger than the gap between the parties he jumped decades ago--and one who could give the Democrats California besides. "Dukakis-Reagan...
...electable. Were it not for a few percentage points, Simon would be the "other candidate," who could provide the populist opposition to the smugly meritocratic, technocratic, vaguely bureaucratic, candidacy of Dukakis. As it is now, Simon possesses the range of traditional Democratic party constituencies: ethnics, dumped-on farmers, the elderly, and the working classes...