Word: populists
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Mileur said, there is a fundamental hole in Nader's populist strategy...
...Bill Clinton's agenda of the '90s," said founder Will Marshall, who quickly added that "Al Gore has been pushing the New Democrat initiatives that helped produce today's prosperity." But Bush is hoping to get Gore coming and going. If the veep is his "own man," and a populist to boot, that's fine - he's his own man on the economy...
...Ralph takes positions on all issues, and they add up to a fairly conventional left-populist world view. But that bizarrely puts him and Buchanan in just about the same place on, for example, the evils of multinational corporations...
...both funny and not made entirely in jest. Vidal is anything but a gadfly in his preoccupation with U.S. public affairs. He brings to the topic a mixture of nostalgia and estrangement. He inherited strong political yearnings; he idolized his blind maternal grandfather, Senator Thomas P. Gore, a populist Democrat from Oklahoma (who makes a cameo appearance in The Golden Age). But the young Vidal's firsthand glimpses of power as he accompanied his grandfather around Washington were eventually succeeded by the realization that he lacked the temperament to achieve such power himself. That is why his sympathy...
...Gore's acceptance speech clearly contained the words of a pseudo-populist who is intent on inciting class warfare [CAMPAIGN 2000, Aug. 28]. As a member of the middle class, I resent being told that I am undeserving. I say it is time for a rational, principled approach. It is time to bring the various factions together in cooperation and not to incite class warfare. RANDY HOFFMAN Seaford...