Word: populists
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Altough Morales, who leads voter polls with about 36%, has made bashing Washington a centerpiece of his campaign, he may not be able to keep his populist promises. The U.S. campaign to eliminate coca may be widely unpopular in Bolivia, where chewing the leaf is deeply entrenched in the culture, but by legalizing its cultivation Morales would risk losing the more than $200 million in essential aid Bolivia receives from Washington. Similarly, while it may be politically popular to call for nationalization of natural gas reserves, that would likely alienate the U.S. and other multinational firms that Bolivia needs...
...doing really valuable work.The debate over the military becomes most difficult when it veers into the dangerous and muddy waters of class. As most everybody knows, the people who fight America’s wars tend to come from America’s most disadvantaged groups. This gives a populist tinge to a lot of militarist rhetoric. The troops whose mission I undermine every time I take the silver spoon out of my mouth long enough to speak are the same huddled masses my fellow liberals and I claim to be so concerned about when the subject is fiscal policy...
...discussion—which was hosted by the HLS Democrats and drew about 20 students—came as part of Brown’s primary campaign for a U.S. Senate race in Ohio 2006. Brown identified himself as an unapologetic progressive “ready to run a populist campaign and progressive agenda” and focused on the themes of economic renewal in Ohio, fair trade issues, and the revitalization of the state’s Democratic party. “My election will show that an unabashed progressive can win the state,” Brown said...
It’s unity in clarity, a populist alternative to the obscure that welcomes the general public. Something the snobs don’t have to read. The best campus magazine named after a day, for sure...
...That new populist bravado, which Chvez has backed up with a multibillion- dollar social-spending program at home, has spread to South American countries like Bolivia, where two Presidents have resigned in less than two years after raucous protests calling for the nationalization of vast, newly discovered natural-gas reserves. Says Amy Myers Jaffe, an analyst at the Baker Institute for Public Policy in Houston: "Chvez has seemingly become a leader who can galvanize antiglobalization agendas anywhere...