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Miles from the Mainstream
D. R. ZUKERMAN, proprietor
Two More Reasons why LPR might be far from the Mainstream

JULY 10, 2005 --

Widely-respected Washington Post columnist Jim Hoagland, July 7, referred to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's president-elect, as a "populist demagogue, who won by promising the moon, sun and stars to Iran's poor."

(Mr. Hoagland's column discussed whether the president-elect is the man show in a photo standing next to one of the Americans taken hostage in Tehran, in 1979, after the fall of the Shah.)

Hamilton in Federalist No. 1 made it clear that a demagogue is someone who makes promisess to the people to get power for himself.

 
Madison, in Federalist No. 57 made it clear that a populist is someeone who sympathizes with and serves the people. Somehow, between 1787 and today --maybe in the 1890s, the idea got accepted that populists were demagogues.

LPR urges clicksters to see the usage
given us by Hamilton and Madison. We have had plenty of demagogues, of course. What the USA needs are populists, as defined by Madison, who work for "the common good," and, standing with the people, keep government from becoming tyrannical.

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