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American Populist by Thomas E. Patterson

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A curious footnote appears in the middle of the Swedish sociologist Gunnar Myrdal’s sprawling 1,500-page study of US race relations, An American Dilemma: The Negro problem and modern democracy (1944). On his travels across the South, Myrdal had encountered a group of white pupils at a poor school in rural Louisiana in 1938. These kids believed that Huey Long, the state’s former governor and senator, who had been dead for three years, was still a…
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American Populist by Thomas E. Patterson

A curious footnote appears in the middle of the Swedish sociologist Gunnar Myrdal’s sprawling 1,500-page study of US race relations, An American Dilemma: The Negro problem and modern democracy (1944). On his travels across the South, Myrdal had encountered a group of white pupils at a poor school in rural Louisiana in 1938. These kids believed that Huey Long, the state’s former governor and senator, who had been dead for three years, was still a…

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The Imagined Constituency Animating Populist Economics

The 1970s were one of the worst decades in American history. We suffered humiliation in Vietnam, crime spiraled out of control, the economy tanked, and the fashion was horrific. Few ever pine for the ‘70s, particularly when it comes to economics. The days of stagflation, high unemployment, gas lines, and general market chaos are not what people see as a golden age.But the 1970s has found a few fans on the “populist” Right. One of those figures i…

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