Re: [Pen-l] No time for a minimalist

["Jim Devine" <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

David Sirota writes:
> The numbers are tragic but predictable. Until this week, Obama largely
> avoided the contrasting FDR-style populism the nation wants and the moment
> demands.

"FDR-style populism"?? whatever one can say about FDR, he was no
populist. He was one of the "Eastern Elite," after all. Maybe you can
say he was a "progressive" (like LaFollette or Teddy Roosevelt) but
populism usually refers to mass "middle class" and working class
opposition to elites.  And most of FDR's progressive policies were a
reaction to mass pressure.
-- 
Jim Devine / "Nobody told me there'd be days like these / Strange days
indeed -- most peculiar, mama." -- JL.
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