CLINTON'S POPULISM.
I actually think Jon Chait goes too far here in declaring Clinton a conservative populist rather than a liberal populist. To put the two strains of thought in more specific terms, Chait is really talking about the difference between economic populism, which believes "the rich wield disproportionate influence over the government and push for policies often at odds with most people's interest," and cultural populism, which has had many variants, but which Chait defines here as a philosophy that chooses to "divide society along social lines, with the elites being intellectuals and other snobs who fancy themselves better than average Americans." Defined as ...Full Article @ The American Prospect - Ezra Klein
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