Word: populists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...history of the business has the record industry has been so dependent for its financial well being on the success of such social misfits. Whereas in the past the industry has looked for a shot in the arm from the cuddly Beatles, the enigmatic Michael Jackson or the populist Bruce Springsteen, it now turns its yearning eyes to a bunch of young men who, by even their own admission, are "sociopsychotic...
...hardly waiting for an excuse to counterpunch. For months Harkin, 51, prepared for his formal announcement of candidacy last weekend by conducting the kind of aggressive populist campaign at which he excels. When he castigates the Reagan and Bush administrations for favoring the rich and harming the less affluent, he sings from the standard party hymnal. But when Harkin gets personal, he deftly exploits the politics of roots and resentment. He is the son of a Slovene immigrant mother who died young and an Iowan coal miner who never got to high school. In attacking the patrician President he keenly...
...record of fiscal austerity. Paul Tsongas, the earliest aspirant, styles himself a pro-business Democrat. Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, still mulling a run, comes across as a middle-roader. Of Harkin's rivals, actual or potential, only Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey might match him as an unapologetic prairie populist...
...that ties Bush closely to his patrician roots. After New York's Mario Cuomo, who still appears disinclined to run, Bush's advisers most fear Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa. Their public glee at the prospect of an old-fashioned liberal leading the Democrats is tempered by Harkin's populist rhetoric and slashing stump style...
...David Broder, Harkin is "the candidate of Bush's nightmares." Business Week calls him a "populist who is raring to sink a pitchfork into the patrician hide of George Bush." The New York Times reports that the 51-year-old Iowa senator "offers his beleaguered party a potent mix of old-time religion, prairie populism and group therapy...