Word: populists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...self-described "libertarian-populist-conservative," Williams is pro-choice on abortion and against MX basing in Montana, and he heretically concedes that the defense budget has some "fat and flab." Williams is, however, solidly in the President's camp when it comes to the economy, believing that Reagan's budget-cutting policies are crucial to aiding the state's ailing farmers and ranchers and reviving the severely depressed mining and timber industries...
Clinton blames White, unjustly, for the record $227 million in utility rate increases approved last year by the state's public service commission. In the end, he is selling not so much a populist critique as a new, improved Bill Clinton who shares citizens' conventional values. It is telling, for instance, that his wife, Lawyer Hillary Rodham, who campaigned for him under her maiden name in 1980, now calls herself Mrs. Bill Clinton...
...multiple contradictions--regional, cultural, racial, religious, and ideological. Nowhere is this basic flaw in their analysis more evident than in Piven and Cloward's dismissal of Reagan's appeal to "traditional values" as a corporate ruse. Rather, Reaganism is a very real evocation of long-standing American right-populist political sentiment...
Peronism is now a splintered movement, but its various branches all endorse some blend of nationalism and populist welfarism. One faction still supports Isabelita Peron, now in her own exile in Madrid. If the party is indeed permitted to operate openly, the question is not just whether the Peronists will be able to overcome their differences and win the electoral majority they claim. It is also whether the military will accept such an outcome...
...address Argentine clergy at the capital's Metropolitan Cathedral, later in the morning to meet with other members of the junta at the presidential Casa Rosada-some Argentines sought to add luster to their own causes through the Pope's presence. Most audaciously, ardent followers of the populist policies of the late Dictator Juan Perón wanted to gain political capital from the major papal appearance of the day. That was an afternoon Mass at the venerable basilica of Our Lady of Luján, the nation's most sacred Marian shrine, 40 miles west...