Word: populists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conservative Republican with a populist campaign, Adametz is for limited government, lower taxes, returning control of education to the states and restoring the traditional American family. He is a former printer, which helps explain his colorful campaign literature: "Three things that can always be found in my refrigerator...chocolate milk, carrots and barbecue sauce." Them's fightin' words...
Hoping to inherit the mantle of retiring four-term Representative Lewis Payne, Goode is both a Democrat and a conservative populist: he is pro-gun, pro-life and pro-tobacco--and has fund-raising barbecues for a modest $5-a-plate...
...years since being elected to fill Al Gore's vacant Senate seat, Thompson's star has risen quickly. He sees himself as a "citizen Senator" and has tremendous populist appeal, both because of his acting background and because his legislative priorities reflect such sensibility: term limits, campaign-finance and juvenile-court reforms, and biannual budgets for Congress. With this style, Thompson is one Senate incumbent who can run as an outsider...
...Chinese protesters intent on reaching the disputed specks. Last week the Chinese got their first martyr--a Hong Kong activist who drowned after leaping overboard to symbolically claim the waters for China. Beijing, which had encouraged the confrontation to tweak Tokyo, now worries about being swept up by the populist fervor...
...though semisatirical rabble-rouser of the much-maligned love-it-or-leave-it Silent Majority of Americans who wished, against their mounting disquiet, to believe in their government's war. The struggle defined itself in cultural conflict. Alabama's Governor George Wallace had gone national as an angry outsider-populist and blue-collar backlasher. Agnew became a kind of insider Establishment populist, attacking "elites," meaning the media and intellectuals emerging as the liberal-minded new class of the information age. With the help of White House speechwriters Pat Buchanan and William Safire, Agnew developed a distinctive, jeering speech style that...