I am not an American voter, and while I’ve long studied political issues, I have no preference between the Democratic and Republican parties. Whoever wins has no personal bearing on me, and a stable two-party system is in the best interest of the United States. I only oppose Trump as ...
The People's Party, often referred to simply as "the Populists," marked a break from the American model of populism — though, ultimately, an unsuccessful one. Emerging from the West and the South in the late 1880s in response to falling agricultural prices and the pressures of industrializa...
Though she may be referencing Lithuania’s history, her concept applies pretty neatly to recent American experience of populist grievance movements and I expect the piece is meant to have a more or less universal application. Otherwise, Baliasnaja is an ardent promoter of her country’s ...
Farmers’ Loan and Trust urbanization (rural-to-urban migration) pooling agreements Vanderbilt, Cornelius Populist Party Veblen, Thorstein, Theory of the Leisure Class Powderly, Terence vertical integration “The public be dammed” Wabash v. Illinois Pullman Strike wage slaves Railway Strikes of 1877 ...
as the magazine put it. After leaving retirement in 2006, she began writing a new column for National Review entitled "The Bent Pin." King was a traditionalist conservative, but not a "movement conservative," and she objected to much of the populist direction of the contemporary American Righ...
It melded with the democratic idea and was asserted as an entitlement for all white men that then anchored the populist politics of the Jacksonian Democratic Party. The idea of natural rights followed a similar trajectory: White men in America used it, increasingly, as a weapon against social ...
Trump as “Jacksonian,” he is expressing his wish/hope/vision/agenda that history will remember Trump as a “populist” leader who gave birth to an entirely new and permanent political party. President Trump pauses after laying a wreath at the Hermitage, the home of President Andrew Jackson....
Though she may be referencing Lithuania’s history, her concept applies pretty neatly to recent American experience of populist grievance movements and I expect the piece is meant to have a more or less universal application. Otherwise, Baliasnaja is an ardent promoter of her country’s ...
The result is that populist politics are largely caricatured and a voice for the middle class is largely absent Snowden Declares Victory, and Obama Might Concede In an interview in Moscow, former National Security Agency surveillance operative Edward Snowden has claimed he's "already won" in ...
He found a platform in The New York Times reporter Jack Newfield’s 1971 article “New Populist Manifesto.” Harris began to decry many of the Great Society programs that he had helped to put in place. He felt those programs placed too much emphasis on inner-city racism and did not do ...