Levin is trying define things to suit his personal, political agenda in 2016. Populism could also be political movement where the common, working stiffs rebel against the nanny state and start a movement to restore personal responsibility and reward those who work and provide for themselves and their dependents.
‘Zactly
Yeah. Trump has a lot in common with “the common, working stiffs.” Right.
But this IS what Mark has ALWAYS done; twist things to make them agree with his positions and GOD help those who go against what he claims to be the ONLY “truth”. He always has been a thin skinned bully and he isn’t as smart as he believes himself to be.
“Levin is trying define things to suit his personal, political agenda in 2016.”
+1
“Populism could also be political movement where the common, working stiffs rebel “
That’s what it was when William Jennings Bryan was the great populist hope back in 1896 and 1900. Populist Democrats vs Progressive Republicans. Enough to make Levin and Beck’s heads explode.
Western farmers thought that they were getting screwed by the railroads that they depended on to get their crops to market. And a wide section of working people believed that the were getting squeezed by the tight money policy of the time as the US abandoned silver and returned to gold standard that Lincoln had broken.