Word: populists
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Iran's Populist Lost His Popularity With prices rising and the economy stagnating, Iranians view their President as less a national hero than the latest in a long line of ineffectual bureaucrats
...TIME's cover asked, "Who is Shinzo Abe?" [Sept. 18]. The answer was beside the point, for all the difference that would make. Since Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is an unopposable force, the prime ministerial race was virtually uncontested. After perusing a menu of populist issues, Abe championed the Japanese abductees of North Korea very late in the day. The LDP has chosen to turn a blind eye to so many other problems that nobody could pretend that he and his fellow parliamentarians are not completely calculating in what causes they address. If that were not so, real...
...protect its interests. But there is something routine about his paranoia here, something that belongs in a different film. He has a great topic in Man of the Year - a smart and unlikely Everyman , an outsider used to speaking truth to power, who now has power to speak populist truth (and disgust) to the powerless, focusing their inchoate needs and longings from the bully presidential pulpit. Instead, he?s given us an awkward mix of standard genres that doesn?t give us what we desperately need in this increasingly desperate political season - a black and snarling assault on our imbecile...
...Iran's Populist Lost His Popularity With prices rising and the economy stagnating, Iranians view their President as less a national hero than the latest in a long line of ineffectual bureaucrats
...Iran's Populist Lost His Popularity With prices rising and the economy stagnating, Iranians view their President as less a national hero than the latest in a long line of ineffectual bureaucrats