Word: populists
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...Faust’s intellectuals are most famous for their ideas justifying human bondage. Hammond, who wanders through Faust’s work the way that populist Thomas Watson meanders through the works of C. Vann Woodward, is problematic both in his ideas and in his personal life. He became rich through marriage, sired children with his slaves, and almost destroyed his political career with a scandal involving his nieces...
...Democrats, it is a veritable free-for-all. Louisiana public service commissioner Foster Campbell, a North Louisiana populist in the Huey Long tradition, is in the running. But many are pinning their hopes on former U.S. Senator John Breaux, who left office in 2005 to join a powerful Washington, D.C., lobbying firm. Breaux remains a popular, widely known figure, but there's one problem: having changed his permanent address to Maryland, he may be ineligible to run for state office under residency requirements set forth in Louisiana's constitution, a snag Republicans started hammering away at in television attack...
...choice won't be obvious. Unlike many southern Democrats, Edwards is not a conservative or moderate in the mold of Bill Clinton. In the 2008 race, he had positioned himself as the most populist and liberal of the serious contenders for the nomination. In a time of war and terrorist threats abroad, Edwards chose a decidedly domestic, and almost anachronistic, theme around which to build his campaign - the fight to eradicate poverty in America. Will Clinton or Obama take up that banner? Not likely...
...would suddenly become the leading white male contenders for the nomination. But neither is a natural replacement for Edwards. Biden is running almost entirely on the strength of his foreign policy experience. Dodd is running as a Washington veteran who can get things done. Neither is plausible as a populist...
...into their countries with xenophobic disdain. In 2005, Philippe de Villiers, leader of France's Euro-skeptic Mouvement pour la France, darkly warned of the "Polish plumber and Estonian architect" triggering "the demolition of France's social and economic model." Before the E.U. admitted 10 new members in 2004, populist fears of unwashed hordes stealing jobs from locals led most of the old E.U. countries, including Germany, Austria and France, to seal their labor markets. In the end, only three of the E.U.'s then 15 countries--Ireland, Britain and Sweden--opened their labor markets...