Another ambassador from a large member state said of the elections: "It will be a pretty large populist revolt against elites.
That would seem to be a better way of prettying up a populist policy than simply saying economists don't matter.
But populists elsewhere have done pretty badly witness the flop of populist ranters such as Poland's once-buoyant farmer, Andrzej Lepper, who took only 3% of the vote in the last general election.However, two of the biggest banes of post-communist Europe remain in place.
And Bush had managed to position himself, pretty successfully, as the populist in the race and Gore as the élitist!
As it is, the nuclear program is pretty much the only populist weapon left in the regime's depleted political arsenal at home.
Are we making a mistake by treating him as a world-historical aberration, rather than a pretty standard (if idiosyncratic) Republican populist?
They also don't realize that the U.S. already has many "socialistic" programs that I'm pretty sure the anti-government populists wouldn't want to give up, including the military, Medicare, the VA, education, city and county law enforcement and fire departments, utilities, Social Security, and even welfare.
Otherwise, we really must consider reviving a populist movement that did pretty well at the end of the 19th Century that routed the Robber Barons of that era.
That combination, science with a populist face, is a pretty fair summation of what she'll have to bring together in her new job as president of Chicago's Adler Planetarium.
But the fatuous and craven decision by both David Cameron ("completely misguided") and Ed Miliband ("pretty offensive") to back up blatant falsehood in search of a populist soundbite is simply pathetic.
