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wnylib

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14. I'm wary of any kind of populism.
Fri Oct 16, 2020, 09:10 AM
Oct 2020

There's a difference, too, between someone being popular versus bring a populist. Obama is popular. So was FDR and JFK. None of them are/were populists.

Favorite Biographies/Autobiographies? [View all] DumpTrump20202020 Sep 2020 OP
Anthony Quinn - One Man Tango nt Xipe Totec Sep 2020 #1
Douglas Bader Applan Sep 2020 #2
Lenny Bruce: "How to Talk Dirty and Influence People" . . . Journeyman Sep 2020 #3
I have this book :) DumpTrump20202020 Sep 2020 #11
Keith Richards MuseRider Sep 2020 #4
Life Itself by Roger Ebert Bradshaw3 Sep 2020 #5
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser. PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2020 #6
Man of the House. Tip ONeill bottomofthehill Sep 2020 #7
Testimony by Robbie Robertson. n/t ms liberty Sep 2020 #8
Alexander Hamilton Sedona Sep 2020 #9
No Ordinary Time by Doris Kerns Goodwin Sedona Sep 2020 #10
I don't know that "favorite" is the best term wnylib Sep 2020 #12
I'll check it out DumpTrump20202020 Oct 2020 #13
I'm wary of any kind of populism. wnylib Oct 2020 #14
Wary of populism? I've got a book suggestion for you: PETRUS Oct 2020 #15
FDR Was a Populist DumpTrump20202020 Nov 2020 #16
By what definition of populism do you wnylib Nov 2020 #17
99% vs. the 1% (or close to it) DumpTrump20202020 Nov 2020 #18
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