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Anyone who thought he was a populist wasn't not listening...

Posted by Mel Profit (aka mel profit) Nov 11 '13, 07:30

The whole Purple States of America speech was about working together not Democratic populism. I had this debate around a family kitchen table in '07.

And we just didn't understand how far Right the GOP would hurl itself in response to his election. Making his desire to compromise completely unrealistic.

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He ran on the slogan "change" -- nm - Roger More Nov 11, 07:36 5
- That's not populism. Also, pretty much every new candidate has to do this -- nm - con_carne Nov 11, 07:54
- "change" away from Partisanship... - Mel Profit Nov 11, 07:51 3
  - "change" means whatever the people hearing it think it means, and it meant a lot of things - Roger More Nov 11, 08:01 2
    - No. Populism involves a certain "take things back from those people!" kind of message, be it "America," the means of production in Latin American - con_carne Nov 11, 08:10 1
      - That's fair enough - he's not populist in the way that, say, Hugo Chavez, was populist. Or like the Tea Party or OWS are populist. - Roger More Nov 11, 08:28
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- you weren't paying attention then... - Mel Profit Nov 11, 07:54 2
  - I completely agree. -- nm - pmb Nov 11, 08:15 1
    - had it been a renunciation of conservatism or a call to democratic populism that would have been the last we'd heard of him. -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 11, 08:25

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