Word: populists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harkin can only dream of his potential breakthrough primaries, Michigan and Ohio, a long and lonely three weeks into the political future. Although he won the support of 14 AFL-CIO unions last week, the angry prairie populist must be asking himself, "Aren't there some traditional Democrats still alive, somewhere...
Crane sees Perseus's potential accessibility as the core of his "populist and staunchly democratic ideal," something he regrets not seeing more of at Harvard. He feels that the current reality of academics only writing for academics is "not viable." "We need in the Humanities to engage the imagination and intelligence of people outside our field. We need to get the populace to have discipline and skepticism...
Tsongas said that voters should choose his"intellectual integrity" over populist appeals ofthe other candidates...
Western advisers and East European free-marketeers often reply with metaphors: You can't cross a chasm in two jumps; you don't slow down when driving through deep mud. But now slowing down is exactly what some populist politicians in the East want to do. To ease the frightening burden on their citizens, some politicians and economists advocate government action that will keep afloat giant state enterprises, such as steel and textile mills, which have suffered especially deep drops in production and endured the heaviest layoffs. But renewed subsidies would only prolong the economic agony by keeping inefficient dinosaurs...
...Lech Walesa, the current President and long considered the dominant figure in Polish politics, drew only 8%, coming in sixth behind Wojciech Jaruzelski, the last communist leader. Many fear that a succession of weak, short-lived governments pursuing inconsistent economic policies could open the way for a populist demagogue and even an authoritarian revival...