In response to
"No. Populism involves a certain "take things back from those people!" kind of message, be it "America," the means of production in Latin American"
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con_carne
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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.
Posted by
Roger More (aka rogermore)
Nov 11 '13, 08:28
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But a lot of people didn't pay attention to his message during the campaign and expected Obama to be more liberal in government. "Change" fed into that.
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