Reply #1: The problem with populism [View All]

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is that you generally need to embrace the will of the masses--which means you'd be pushed to support prayer in schools, no same-sex marriages, anti-immigration, etc.

Populism, I thought, always had promise, but in the late 1800s it became increasingly dominated by a fundamentalist Christian type thinking represented well by William Jennings Bryan. He was for the little guy in both cities and rural areas...but also for that other nasty stuff like religious wackoism and eventually anti-evolution stuff.

It might be powerful if it could be controlled, but I think that is the problem with Populism--it can't be controlled by anyone other than the masses.