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    Declaring Their Party ‘Spineless,’ Democrats Try an Economic Populist Pitch. A group of House Democrats referred to as the New Economic Patriots introduced themselves on Capitol Hill promising to lead their party out of its funk. It wasn’t clear how they planned to do so.


    Declaring Their Party ‘Spineless,’ Democrats Try an Economic Populist Pitch. A group of House Democrats referred to as the New Economic Patriots introduced themselves on Capitol Hill promising to lead their party out of its funk. It wasn’t clear how they planned to do so.

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    2. ONETRILLIONAMERICANS on

      >“What people are asking for is to transform the party in a more populist direction,” said Representative Greg Casar, Democrat of Texas and the chairman of the Progressive Caucus, who is also a member of the new group. “Populist means we are for working people across the spectrum, even if they disagree with us. The way we bring in conservatives is that we’re economic populists that are willing to be on their side.”

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    4. Easylikeyoursister on

      Is it just me, or does the guy in the thumbnail of the article look eerily like Bashar al-Assad?

    6. Yeangster on

      I’m going to bite the “popularism” bullet here and say that while I strongly disagree with them, dumb populist proposals such as anti-price gouging tend to poll pretty well.

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