Populists Were Not Always a Fringe Group

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we got to the last sentence. Say WHAT?
Do you not know that the modern Tea Party enthusiasts are either willingly (or unwittingly) on the same side of things as the railroads and other monopolies of William Jennings Bryan's day? There ain't no such thing as somehow controlling the corporations more by campaigning to control them less---as is the whole goal of today's minority of nose-ring-led tea baggers.
Of course, we have to now realize that John Roberts and Samuel Alito (so-called "justices" on the Supreme Court) just gave those folks your future and set the American PEOPLE back 100 years in this regard by re-opening American elections to unlimited corporate money.

Muser of NM 4:23PM January 26, 2010

By my read of history, you have combined and perhaps confused the Populists with the Progressives, through an argument can be made that they were really the same thing - or at least part of the same coalition. In any event, yet another great column.

Peter of VA 3:25PM January 26, 2010