A Populist Prairie Fire From the Right?
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 13th, 2009 5:35 am by HL
A Populist Prairie Fire From the Right?
Every few generations in America, we go through a “creedal passion period,” the late political scientist Samuel P. Huntington taught. Like the Great Awakening of the 1740s and the 1960s cultural revolution, these are times of great unrest when the morally outraged masses react against a perceived violation of the American “creed.” “Power is now seen as corporate. So the next outburst of creedal passion may be against hegemonic corporate capitalism,” the professor prophesied in 2001. Don’t be surprised if 2009 is the year that the creedal-passion dam gives way and a new populism arises to wash away many conventional assumptions about American politics – and come the 2010 elections, many conventional politicians.
