
Populism might not be what you think
The David McWilliams Podcast
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The Gold Standard - I'm Going to Kilcinomics.
The word populism was invented by a bunch of guys on a train traveling between kansas city and tapeke. They were trying to come up with a name for a brand new political movement, a third party. And in the 18 nineties the state where they were biggest was this one,. right here. The populists conquered the state legislature in the year 18 90. For six more months, they came upthey, deliberately, the name of, the official name of the part was like the people's party or something like that. But it didn't stick. People who were voting populist did not even know that the party had an official name. It was only referred to as 'popul
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