> 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.
Certainly we all know by now that the late 19th century populist movement had its defects, including not a little racism, etc., but hopefully we could produce a populist movement today which, while not perfect, would be cleansed of the most repulsive of those defects.
Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org __________________________ Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. (Henry Adams, "The Education of Henry Adams")