Word: populists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worked odd jobs--janitor, gardener, house painter--before entering the real estate business. In 1990, as a political neophyte, Lim finished second in the Republican gubernatorial primary. Two years later, he won a seat in the state senate. Now Lim has spun his tale into a populist alternative to Democratic incumbent Ron Wyden. "I'm running to set an example--not just for Asians but for all Americans," Lim says. "I want people to say, 'Look at John. He came here as an immigrant without a penny in his pocket, and through hard work and tenacity, he has a chance...
...arsonists; no material in America was more flammable than race. He took his magnificent sneer and slurring menace up North to Rust Belt, hard-hat territory and, as if in a century-delayed retaliation for Sherman's march, he scorched the earth with a message of racial contempt and populist economic grievance. In the 1968 election, he took 13% of the popular vote and won five states...
While Flynn may have sacrificed political gain by standing by his strong pro-life abortion stand, voters focused on his populist appeal along with his previous political roots...
...ideal viewer--not a New York "conosher" but a farmer in a straw hat who still holds the buggy whip with which he has, presumably, driven in from Long Island. On the wall behind, a drawing of the head of Apollo is looking haughtily away from this populist scene...
Flynn and Clapprood hail from two sides of the liberal tradition. An Irish Catholic who rose to prominence in the early 1980s as a populist champion of the working class, Flynn, 59, is an F.D.R. Democrat who's tight with organized labor. He left city hall in 1993 to serve for four years as Bill Clinton's U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, but he still sounds more like a ward heeler than a diplomat. "I've always been a fighter for the poor people of this city, and I'll continue to do that," Flynn says one morning...