Word: populists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bush's approval rating may have plummeted after he agreed to new taxes, but it will hit zero when he takes his defense of elite America to the American public. Democrats have a golden opportunity to reclaim their populist identity as the party of the working and middle classes in America. By supporting tax equity and fairness, they can focus attention on solving domestic problems that have been neglected too long. Rather than spout empty tax rhetoric that nobody believes anymore, Democrats can begin to address the problems that President Bush has abandoned...
...seen as a populist, as a man of ambitions," but his actions show otherwise, Lewandowski said. "A populist would appease the people...He's trying a market solution, which is not an appeasement. It's a painful solution...
Duke looks too young, at 40, to have founded so many racist organizations and journals and to have run for so many offices -- twice for the state senate (as a Klan member), twice for the presidency (as a Democrat and then as a Populist), once for the vice presidency (in New Hampshire), once for the state legislature (as a Republican) and now for the Senate (as a Republican without the party's endorsement). Even as a Klan member, he won 33% of the vote in his 1975 Senate race. As an overnight Republican, he won 51% in his runoff victory...
...moment when voters hungered for nothing but. In the end, his laser lip earned him the same anti-politician cachet that has propelled the cowboy campaign of Clayton Williams, the Republican candidate for Governor in Silber's native state of Texas. Silber, like Williams, is viewed as a populist. A hallmark of populism, from the left or the right, is exploitation of anger against the status quo. "I understood the outrage," Silber said...
...debate over when to open the city is rapidly becoming an issue in the rivalry between Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin, the hard-charging populist leader of the Russian Federation. During a visit here last month, Yeltsin vowed that if the Soviet government did not lift restrictions permanently and soon, the Russian parliament would do so on its own. As a result, this is now Yeltsin country...