On Sep 20, 2008, at 7:39 PM, Jim Devine wrote:
maybe. I don't know that much about the LaFollettes.
Joe McCarthy and the CPUSA made a bloc to beat Phil LaFollette in the
1946 Wisconsin GOP primary (as far as I know the only American
Stalinist intervention outside the Dumbocrats).
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
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