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Robin-Hood Republicanism?

by David Sirota

Only months after the 2008 primaries, most Americans probably don't remember Mike Huckabee or Ron Paul. But that doesn't mean the conservative populism they championed during their campaigns for the Republican presidential nomination is as fleeting as their dark-horse candidacies.

Since rank-and-file House Republicans began criticizing October's Wall Street bailout, a growing faction of the GOP has been channeling the country's rage at Corporate America with us-versus-them rhetoric and ...

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Posted by: John Bailo
Comment: #1
Fri Mar 13, 2009 7:58 PM

Yes, it does seem ironic, yet it is a true thing. Republicans are 2/3rds populist and 1/3rd elitist. With Democrats the numbers are reversed.

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