maybe. I don't know that much about the LaFollettes. On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Shane Mage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sep 20, 2008, at 6:12 PM, Jim Devine wrote: > >> David Sirota writes: >>> >>> The numbers are tragic but predictable. Until this week, Obama largely >>> avoided the contrasting FDR-style populism the nation wants and the >>> moment >>> demands. >> >> "FDR-style populism"?? whatever one can say about FDR, he was no >> populist. He was one of the "Eastern Elite," after all. Maybe you can >> say he was a "progressive" (like LaFollette or Teddy Roosevelt) but >> populism usually refers to mass "middle class" and working class >> opposition to elites. > > Weren't the LaFollettes (Suzanne LaFollette participated in the Dewey > Commission), like Huey Long and Bill Langer, products and exponents of mass > "middle class" and working class (and farmer) opposition to elites? > > > Shane Mage > > "Thunderbolt steers all things...it consents and does not consent to be > called Zeus." > > Herakleitos of Ephesos > > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >
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