[lbo-talk] Gingrich's attacks could help Obama

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Jan 16 12:15:46 PST 2012


On Jan 16, 2012, at 3:10 PM, Sean Andrews wrote:


> What's been more interesting to me is the stuff Gingrich is throwing
> out in opposition to Romney - it's almost Marxist in it's vociferous
> critique of capitalism. (cf. Nixon, China, etc...)

It's also standard right-wing populism: anti-finance, and seeing the roots of many problems abroad (Bain's Latin investors, the Ontario Teachers' pension fund investment).

Doug



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