Populism's Phony Innocence

摘要

Outspent 15-TO-1 in the recent iowa and new hampshire campaigns by the centimillionaire Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee can't be blamed for playing the populist card. In 1980 Ronald Reagan played the populist card, too. Reagan ran as the man of Main Street against the Big Business candidacies of John Con-nally (who would set a record for the most campaign dollars spent to win Republican convention delegates—just one, in Con-nally's case) and George H.W. Bush.