Word: populists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Little Communicator is at it again. As Republican spin doctors and political handlers scurry about the landscape trying to use "family values" to shore up President Bush's eroding base among conservatives and divert attention from peskier concerns such as the deficit, the Vice President must beat the populist drum on cultural and moral matters. To a standing ovation from the annual Southern Baptist Convention in Indianapolis last week, Quayle declared that the hoots of nationwide amusement at his Murphy Brown efforts were a "badge of honor." A "cultural elite," cynical and relativistic, the same folk Spiro Agnew used...
...teamed up even in their wildest dreams, may not agree instantly on the best approach, for example, to urban blacks or Southern evangelicals. And getting along with Perot may be harder than getting along with each other: Rollins met Perot only last weekend, and Jordan's relationship with the populist plutocrat predates Rollins' by only a few months. Rollins' penchant for candidly criticizing his own clients will eventually put Perot's legendary thin skin to the test...
...Perot's call for "action, action, action." Perot may never be ranked with Truman and Roosevelt -- and of course he would have to win first -- but he already personifies an enduring strain in American life, a pervasive antipathy for insiders. It is this ideological hostility that prompted the Populist and Progressive movements and the rise of George Wallace, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. But the sentiments that fuel the surge for Perot ("Take our country back") are perhaps best understood as a 20th century manifestation of Jacksonian Democracy, the anti-Establishment revolt that captured the country's imagination...
...Serbia, embodied in this pudgy-faced man with a belligerent jaw who has seized on generations of ethnic hatreds and resentments to turn what was Yugoslavia into a slaughterhouse. There are, as Milosevic rightly insists, "no innocent sides" in the civil war, nor is he the only unsavory populist who has emerged from more than four decades of communism. But he is far and away the most destructive. More than any other single person, Milosevic is responsible for the bloodshed by his unyielding determination to see all Serbs united in one country carved from territory the communists left -- fairly...
...year term, many considered the former president, instead, immediately began to foster the image of a down-to-earth populist...