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

["Jim Devine" <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

maybe. I don't know that much about the LaFollettes.

On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Shane Mage <shmage@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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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