Word: populists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...state house of representatives in early 1989, he grabbed a surprisingly strong 44% of the vote in a failed bid for the U.S. Senate last year. Now political observers are speculating about Duke's presidential aspirations and comparing him to George Wallace, who transformed voter anger into a national populist movement two decades ago. Duke denies he has plans to run for the White House, but he warns that next year his "issues are coming to the forefront. I'll have an impact, certainly...
...Orleans' problems reflect the stagnation of a state that relies on natural resources, from oil to sugarcane, as its main source of income. In the days of Huey Long, the populist strongman of the 1930s, oil money was the lubricant for a vast share-the-wealth program that provided the public with highways, charity hospitals, free textbooks and old-age pensions; largely shielded from taxes, the people tolerated the corruption that went along with the system. But that party is long since over. When oil prices went bust in the past decade, so did the state treasury, which now faces...
...writes one commentator in the weekly Moscow News, Yeltsin has displayed "three souls": those of a populist, a democratic reformer and an elitist from the old nomenklatura of the Communist Party bureaucracy. The democratic reformer became the first popularly elected leader in Russian history in June; and the populist shortly after stood on a tank to defy the coup; but lately the elitist has been in evidence. Yeltsin has appointed namestniki -- in effect, governors -- to administer regions and localities in his name, under powers ceded him by the Russian parliament last August...
...abandonment of cities by the federal government, the news media's obsession with Black drug crime and white suburbanites tolerance of drug violence in Black areas, and the creation of code-words for segregationism that allow David Duke to sound like George Bush with populist bite--all these amount to social codifications of ignorance of and unconcern for the Black underclass...
...often tolerated and constant wheeling and dealing can be respected. He appeals (with no small effort) to some basic "Americanness" many of us identify with--a Western sort of freedom (he wears cowboy boots a lot), a blue-jeaned individuality (he's not tied down by marriage) and a populist fear of Washington (to which the AIPACked and Farmer's Unioned Tom Harkin has much less claim...