Elizabeth Warren

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

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3. So let's see...

Reply to RiverLover (Original post)

Sun Dec 28, 2014, 10:46 PM

Dec 2014

And it is rarely embodied by the far left, which typically turns populist sentiment into demagoguery.

but

Populist movements of the left, right and center have existed throughout American history;

So it's 'rarely embodied' by the left, but movements of the left have existed throughout history. And later, he even adds

the progressive movement came about at the very time that left-leaning populists of the 1890s — members of the short-lived People's Party — challenged the political establishment to champion “the little guy,” Nichols said.

“Early populists and progressives thus fought each other to represent the anti-corporate side of the political spectrum,” he said.

How many times can one expert contradict himself in a single article?

And the tea party was 'grass roots'?

Populism does not start at the top and work its way down to people; it works from the people up.

Somebody should have told that to the 'grass roots' Koch-paid-for 'tea partiers'.

So there's a definite agenda on display in the article, and that agenda is diminishing Warren and sneering at populism.

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Elizabeth Warren Is No 'Populist' [View all] RiverLover Dec 2014 OP

A piece of trash dragged in from a right-wing toxic site. Jackpine Radical Dec 2014 #1

Sorry to have dirtied you shoes!!! RiverLover Dec 2014 #7

It wasn't just my shoes. Jackpine Radical Dec 2014 #11

And your notion of a genuine populist is...? n/t. Ken Burch Dec 2014 #2

I'm going to guess he agrees more with the Erich Bloodaxe BSN Dec 2014 #4

I like your definition better than Webster's. RiverLover Dec 2014 #8

So let's see... Erich Bloodaxe BSN Dec 2014 #3

Great takedown of this ridiculous article! Thanks Erich. RiverLover Dec 2014 #9

The quest to get her to run seems very populist to me Fearless Dec 2014 #5

Exactly! RiverLover Dec 2014 #6

"I'm not a populist, but-- Jackpine Radical Dec 2014 #13

Took me a second to get that. ;) RiverLover Dec 2014 #14

That is one of the tactics I saw a couple of weeks ago - djean111 Dec 2014 #10

Definitely, I think so too. Good post. nt RiverLover Dec 2014 #12

Depends on your definition-- Jackpine Radical Dec 2014 #15

There you go again, makin me think. RiverLover Dec 2014 #16

Well, I'm sure you'll be OK with that. Jackpine Radical Dec 2014 #17

You do remember I'm the one who asked you RiverLover Dec 2014 #18

Yes of course. Jackpine Radical Dec 2014 #19

Here's a sneaky slam from Third Way Bill Schneider.... RiverLover Dec 2014 #20