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

Alan Rudy alan.rudy at gmail.com
Sun Feb 21 13:04:56 PST 2010


I say this at least in part because the national and MA implosion is being oh-so-clearly replicated here in MI.

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Alan Rudy <alan.rudy at gmail.com> wrote:


> 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.
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> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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>> On Feb 21, 2010, at 9:32 AM, Chip Berlet wrote:
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>> The TP support and sentiments just elected a libertarian Republican to
>>> replace the late Senator Ted Kennedy here in MA.
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>> 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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