Populism: Why can't we use it?

[raging moderate]

54. Well, there was Henry Wallace, Roosevelt's last Vice President, right?

Henry Wallace was a left-wing populist, wasn't he? And there was Woody Guthrie, and there were others, too, back then. I get the feeling that left-wing populism was gaining some traction during the Great Depression. Many people were starving back then, including members of my family who went without food for a couple of days sometimes. There were children who starved to death in this country back then. And some of them were white children. And, for awhile, it seemed as though some working class white people wised up. Also, some wealthy people wised up and realized that they needed to just lift their feet a little because those were actual real people's necks they were standing on. And that other people would appreciate them for doing so.