[lbo-talk] Fascism, right-wing populism, and contemporary research

[Alan Rudy]

Without celebrating them, or suggesting that they're doing anything
unexpected, the Dem's are their own worst enemies... anyone with half a
shred of savvy, planning or chutzpah could have won that seat and stopped a
whole boatload of TP momentum in its tracks... but they continually dump on
their traditional lay constituencies, they continue to show themselves to be
timid in all cases and incapable of planning their way out of a paper bag,
and they continue to put up losers as candidates... you don't have to have
liked LBJ or FDR but at least those guys knew their politics and how to play
from a strong hand.

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


>
> On Feb 21, 2010, at 9:32 AM, Chip Berlet wrote:
>
>  The TP support and sentiments just elected a libertarian Republican to
>> replace the late Senator Ted Kennedy here in MA.
>>
>
> Which had nothing to do with Obama's excise tax on health plans, which
> totally lost the Dem the union vote. And the awfulness of the candidate who
> didn't want to campaign on the streets of Boston in January because it was
> too cold. It was the Tea Party. They come in so handy!
>
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Alan P. Rudy
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Central Michigan University
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