> Mark Rickling
> Tea Partiers are not family farmers, and therefore , not "populists".
This is exactly the type of narrow analytical view that I am trying to contest. It's like saying anyone who is not European and living between WWI and WWII cannot be a fascist.
Well, they cannot be a Fascist of Nazi, but they sure can be a neofascist or neonazi.
And, looking back through history, the idea of populism existed before the agrarian populists of the late 19th century.
Jacksonian populism, for example. Jackson is praised by some on the left who conveniently ignore his genocide of native populations.
-chip