Friday, April 17, 2009

RIGHT-WING POPULISM?

On Hannity's radio show today, he played excerpts from a Country Western song that cast the Wall Street bankers in a bad light and I thought that this sentiment certainly goes against the GOP's well known catering to business interests and is another example of the inner contradictions of GOP philosophy. Arianna thinks this populism may work to the GOP's advantage because:
...a grassroots populist backlash fueled by the perception -- one based on a lot of reality -- that the Obama economic team is treating Wall Street with kid gloves, and acting as if the interests of the big banks are aligned with the public interest, even though again and again we are presented with evidence of how much they diverge.

I can't see the GOP successfully portraying the Democrats as the "Party of Wall Street Bankers."

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