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...Populist (or People's) Party was founded at the St. Louis Convention of 1892. Among those who came together to form this agrarian empowerment movement: the Christian Women's Temperance Union, the Farmer's Alliance, the Knights of Labor, the American Federation of Labor and the Christian Socialists. Yet almost from the outset, the Party was as negative as it was diversely constituted. Georgian populist Tom Watson, one of the Party's guiding lights, was infamous for such enlightened remarks as, "Did [Jefferson] dream that in 100 years or less...red-eyed Jewish millionaires would be chiefs of that [Democratic...
Indeed, the pernicious legacy of the populist admonition against "a government of Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street"--business as the enemy-- can be heard loud and clear in the speeches of the New-Age Tom Watson, our friend from "Crossfire...
What Buchanan has discovered is the enduring power of the full populist litany: moral conservatism, rejection of political elites, fear of foreigners and--the one leg that Republicans have largely avoided--suspicion of concentrated economic power. In the late 19th century, populism arose out of economic upheaval, the rapid growth of large industry and powerful railroads that crushed small farmers and craftsmen. Their enemy was the "money power" of the Eastern establishment, the power of banks and big corporations. That and immigrants and the corruption of the political establishment. Sound familiar...
Though Buchanan was written off early in the campaign as an extremist, his populist campaign strategy coupled with his fiery oratory propelled him to victory and sent opponents scrambling for answers...
...balloting, making Haiti effectively a one-party state. Only 28% of the populace bothered to vote in the December presidential election because most Haitians reject the constitutional restrictions that bar Aristide from serving successive terms. Bound by a promise extracted by Clinton, Aristide grudgingly stepped down, but the charismatic populist shows every intention of running again in 2000 and will hover powerfully over the political scene, a force so dominant it scarcely matters whether he holds office...