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[Earthdweller]

"Anxious lower middle class families are shaping up to be the crucial political constituency of this year's election."

Not likely since the liberal Washington elites in both parties give their candidates a twenty percent delegate advantage from the get go.

[traderrob6]

Ramesh Ponnuru is and ill informed a$$

[DogandPonyShow]

Republicans cannot out “populism” the DemoRats. Trying to spells doom.

Kill terrorists
Shrink the government
Lower taxes

[ex-snook]

"The Democratic candidates have noticed and are championing an old-fashioned economic populism that stokes voters' fears and seeks to direct them toward welfare state-style solutions that expand the role of government."

The pejorative 'populism' is thrown in when it could be called be called listening to the citizens.

This is not new. After the 1929 business failures, people turned to the government solutions of FDR. Post WW II, private industry again produced prosperity.

Today the failure of the trade promises and the inadequacy of an 'information economy' engine has made citizens again turn to government.

If private business depends on the global production economy for profits, expect the gravitational pull of government to increase.

[BGHater]

I dunno where the author is coming from trying to link Populism with Mike Huckabee.

Mike is the anti-populist candidate, when we talk about ‘old school’ populism.

Pat Buchanan is a populist. Rush is wrong trying to say Mike is one.

Mike is a Open Borders Lover. He loves illegals in our country, that is not a Populist ideal.

He likes the fact that his Arkansas chicken plants used the ‘globalist’ force of low paid, low educated, foreign, illegal aliens. That is anit-populist.

I don’t think he mentions NAFTA, GATT or any trade laws in specific. He is also a big fan of Gov’t controlling your life when it comes to health, global warming and other UN actions. Which is totally anti-populist. Old school guys like Buchanan want us out of the UN and the Gov’t out of our lives.

[marsh2]

Do they really want a tax progarm that is fair to the lower class with angst? Exempt everyone’s income up to the poverty level from federal taxation and then do a graduated tax. Current tax schemes like the flat tax and the graduated tax starting with 10% on low income people is still a huge disproportionate share when viewed from the perspective of basic living needs. $2000 in federal taxes plus social security and state tax is a proportionately enormous amount if you make $20,000 and must basically feed, cloth, house, heat, and transport yourself on what’s left over after taxes.