Watching for Pitchforks
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on March 20th, 2009 4:35 am by HL
Watching for Pitchforks
Walter Shapiro notes that an angry public — and not necessarily the Republicans — may be the greater threat to President Obama’s agenda. As we’ve seen this week, “a corrosive anti-establishment rage that does not fit into any pre- existing political category” is brewing across America.
Shapiro makes a good case that “apolitical populism — a spasmodic outpouring of ideologically incoherent rage — could easily drown Obama’s inevitable request for more bank bailout funds. The White House, according to insiders, is very concerned that pitchfork-wielding voters are already raging against any future bailouts of the banking industry or even Detroit.”