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Go Midwest (and Border State), Young Progressives

Economic populism is the key for Democrats to maintain majority.

By Cliff Schecter

In his impressive tome, American Populism: A Social History 1877-1898, historian Robert C. McMath, Jr., discussed how populist reformers “understood that old rules and values were crumbling, and that powerful new economic institutions buttressed by the state threatened their independence.” This description of corporate-created economic hardship in parts of America during the late 19th century is equally fitting for the… return to article

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