All posts tagged "Populism"

President Donald Trump is facing mounting criticism over abandoning his MAGA base as he turns his focus to foreign issues, dining with billionaires and building his ballroom — not making life more affordable for Americans like he promised.

Trump allies fear the president is "drifting away from his more populist stance," according to a New York Times report published Friday. The president has reportedly eyed attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, a gathering of top business and political leaders.

"Some of his advisers, however, feel such a trip would send the wrong message at a moment when they are trying to recapture a political edge on the economy," The Times reports....

An economist is predicting how Democrats can defeat MAGA and reconnect with American workers with "two major makeovers."

Dani Rodrik, Harvard University’s Kennedy School professor and the author of “Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor and Our Climate," suggests a new strategy for Democrats and how they approach the working class in an opinion piece for The New York Times published Monday.

Democrats need a strong jobs agenda, focused on creating good jobs and moving away from the notion that "officials thinking about economic development need to get over their manufacturing fetishism," he argued....

[rebelmouse-image 24748888 original_size="257x261" expand=1]Sometimes, the need for conservatives to shut up and let the professionals do their talking becomes so strong that even I almost feel pity enough to say, "Stop trying to deny that you're nutty, because your denials are proving the point." Almost. And then I start laughing again, such as at the comments in this piece I wrote about birthers, where it was made clear to me by birther commenters that they could prove their non-nuttiness with A LOT OF CAPS LOCKS AND MANY! EXCLAMATION! POINTS! But reading The Daily Texan yesterday at the bus stop, I found what might be the absolute ideal of right wing faux populism. It was a letter to the editor by a dude protesting an article written by a female student about the assholes of the anti-choice movement. You can fill out your Wingnut Bingo card in short order with it: misrepresentations, outright lies, trotting out vocabulary words with the wrong connotations, "I know you are, but what am I?" attempts at trying to thwart those crafty liberals, Palin worshipping, and of course, thin attempts to win the argument by declaring that you're morally superior because you have a certain salt-of-the-earth quality your opponent lacks, with her tea-drinking liberal elitist ways.