On Dec 1, 2010, at 4:07 PM, Max Sawicky wrote:
> Ditto the KKK.
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> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
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>> I haven't read the article, but if you can call the New Deal populist, then
>> you can call anything populist; it makes the word useless.
The word is kind of useless - you can plug just about anything into it. The basic mechanism is dividing society into good guys and bad guys - producers and parasites, industry and finance, the People and elites, whatever.
Doug