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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTweety doesn't understand what a populist is....got embarrassed...
Ron Fournier (editor of National Journal) was a guest and told him that a person doesn't have to be a liberal to be a populist which Matthews had just stated as a fact He (Tweety) went after him like a dog on a bone. Relentless. Awkward to watch.
http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/populism
malaise
(269,365 posts)It was his guest who does not know the meaning of liberal
randys1
(16,286 posts)Tweety can be annoying, but he is almost always the smartest guy in any room he is in.
malaise
(269,365 posts)he was stammering. The moron could not give one example of how ReTHUGs would deal with the income gap. Watch the repeat.
FSogol
(45,599 posts)GOP Modus operandi
malaise
(269,365 posts)but it wouldn't be 'populist' to say it
FSogol
(45,599 posts)Peregrine Took
(7,421 posts)H2O Man
(73,715 posts)FSogol
(45,599 posts)malaise
(269,365 posts)It was first rate Hard Ball (for a change)
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)among the LW and the RW.
It is a fact jack. Just that most people do not understand this.
Yes, Scott Walker is a populist, and yes, the tea party are populists. It is not the type I like, or prefer, but they are.
Hell, Perry just launched a great rebranding with RW populism at it's core.
hedda_foil
(16,379 posts)Huey Long was a racist populist. Hitler was a fascist populist early on. It's about presentation, not generally sincere, but occasionally so.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)a chicken in every pot Long. Indeed.
hedda_foil
(16,379 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)it is amazing to me how people do not know that history.
LuvNewcastle
(16,869 posts)at least when you account for the place and time where he lived. Other southern politicians often used racist rhetoric in their speeches, but Long made sure to put the blame for the poor's problems on the wealthy. He was unusual about that, at least in the South, and I think he should be considered a LW populist.
onecaliberal
(33,016 posts)Income inequality.
Peregrine Took
(7,421 posts)malaise
(269,365 posts)You cannot say the same for conservative policies
valerief
(53,235 posts)malaise
(269,365 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)He went waxing on about St. Anthony's church and the Little Italy neighborhood of Wilmington last week, in the apparent belief that Joe Biden lived in that neighborhood and attended that church.
It was painful.
Yes, it is an important church in the diocese and, yes, it is a neighborhood with which everyone in the area is familiar, but it was not the church the Biden's attended nor the neighborhood in which Biden ever lived.
merrily
(45,251 posts)After all, know one Delaware Catholic and you know them all, amirite?
uponit7771
(90,378 posts)... the couldn't explain how in the world conservatives were going to make policy for liberal positions
malaise
(269,365 posts)You win the thread
In case you didn't know Scott Walker is the new JFK or so he claims
merrily
(45,251 posts)when he first ran for the Senate, too.Brown's first run was also backed very heavily by the Koch brothers. Of course, that was a better fit from Brown, given he was running in Massachusetts and for Teddy's seat.
Fact is, the Eisenhower administration could brag about guns and butter in great part because the war tax that had been imposed to pay for World War II had never been repealed. JFK lowered taxes. He also said that the New Deal, in which his father had famously played a very significant role, had saved capitalism in America. So, if you forget a "few" things, including an amazingly brilliant mind, you could mistake JFK for someone the Koch brothers might like to have in office And, he is certainly a way to try to appeal to Democrats--assuming they know much of anything about him, by experience or study.
After all, his assassination was over a half century ago. Someone who is sixty now probably remembers the assassination vividly, but not his actual policies.
merrily
(45,251 posts)Kidding, of course It' doesn't help anyone but the rich, much as we've done for most of our history.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)you will really ensure absence of actual communication.