On Thu Feb 08 2001, Chip Berlet wrote:
> Arianna Stassinopoulos (Huffington) is a classic right-wing populist.
> If you read her book and then cruise her website, she supports tax
> cuts for the rich, privatizing welfare and turning it over to
> "faith-based groups,"
So do Al Gore and Joe Lieberman.
> and railing against government and wealthy elites, which is what the
> John Birch Society has been doing for years.
So if Al and Joe started railing against government elites, that would make them right wing populists akin to John Birchers? It wouldn't mean they'd moved left?
I thought for a classical right wing populist in your sense, one needed a combination of anti-elitism, ethnic scapegoating and conspiracy theory. Are you saying that Arianna has elements 2 and 3? Or that all you need is element 1, plus not being a leftist, to be beyond the pale?
Michael
__________________________________________________________________________ Michael Pollak................New York City..............mpollak at panix.com