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

[Shane Mage <shmage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 20, 2008, at 6:12 PM, Jim Devine wrote:

> 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.

Weren't the LaFollettes (Suzanne LaFollette participated in the Dewey  
Commission), like Huey Long and Bill Langer, products and exponents of  
mass "middle class" and working class (and farmer) opposition to elites?


Shane Mage

"Thunderbolt steers all things...it consents and does not consent to  
be called Zeus."

Herakleitos of Ephesos



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