Populism (as shown in *The Progressive Populist*

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Jan 4 08:24:43 PST 2000


Max B. Sawicky wrote:


>My basic position on Buchanan/Fulani/Perot
>is shoot the messenger, figuratively speaking,
>but take a good part of the message seriously.

Why shoot the messenger if the message is worth taking seriously? Or, alternatively, is there no relation at all between messenger and message? And in Buchanan's case, isn't he the author rather than the messenger?

Doug



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