[lbo-talk] Kinky... Why the hell not?

[Michael Hoover]

>>> dhenwood at panix.com 01/29/06 12:03 PM >>>
Concessions? Or is that "conservatism" part of the populist 
territory? Has there ever been a populist movement that wasn't 
nationalist? It seems inseparable from the Us against Them, 
Insider/Outsider psychology of populism.
Doug
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many of populism's critics suggest that it can be linked to any 
cause/ideology, that it is - at least - implicitly authoritarian,
'populist' democracy as the enemy of 'pluralist' democracy,
demagogic politicians playing on folks' fears & hopes...  mh