Word: populists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THOUGH THE Democratic battle has attracted most of the media attention so far, the Republican contest between old-line. Brahmin guru Elliot L. Richardson '41 and self-made-millionaire-businessman-cum-populist-conservative Ray Shamie has provided a more substantive debate on President Reagan and the future of the ailing state Republican organization...
Shamie, a businessman and inventor who has never served in government before, is a should-mate of the populist-conservatives who hold away in party platform formulation last month at the Dellas convention. Shemie palled nearly 40 percent of the vote two years ago when he ran against Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Maas.), pushing a similar economic and foreign policy agenda...
...rival wing of self-styled populist conservatives would press the Reagan Revolution to fulfillment. They would cut taxes even more, stressing economic growth and dismissing worries about red ink; escalate the attack on Big Government, cutting Government regulation to the bare essentials; use the power of the White House to bring antiabortion and school-prayer bills to the floor of Congress and keep them there until they passed; not stint on building up the military and show no sign of softening to the Soviets...
...former CIA director and envoy to Peking, Bush fulfilled the Eastern Establishment tradition of public service in foreign policy. To many Western and populist conservatives, the old foreign policy elite is the same bunch that sold out to Stalin at Yalta, "lost China" and naively adopted Henry Kissinger's vision of detente. Bush was even once a member of the Trilateral Commission, an Establishment foreign policy organization regarded with deep suspicion by the conspiracy theorists of the far right. Another leading exemplar of the "preppie" group is Rhode Island Senator John Chafee, a former Secretary of the Navy...
More than any other wing of the party, the young Turks have come up with new ideas, including the fervently advocated Kemp-proposed tax cut that Reagan pushed through in 1981. They are often called "populist conservatives" (pop-cons, for short) and argue that rich and poor alike would benefit from their economic programs. Not all the ideas are universally admired, to be sure. A modified "flat tax" on personal income, endorsed by the platform as "a most promising approach," would eliminate loopholes that allow many of the rich to evade taxes, and it would set a single rate...