>On Nov 21, 2004, at 1:26 AM, Shane Mage wrote:
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>>Sounds like good oldfashioned American populism to me.
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>Right now, good old-fashioned populism sounds like about the best we
>can do, or even somewhat better than we can do -- our fondest
>aspiration is to work our way back to the 1890s.
I suspect that "good oldfashioned American populism" has a lot to do with the right turn in Tom Frank's Kansas. It had a substantial anti-urban, anti-cosmoplitan strain mixed in with the better stuff.
Doug