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I don’t necessarily buy the notion that public discontent with the recent AIG retention bonuses, or with Wall Street’s role in the economic meltdown overall, is a signpost of resurgent populist feeling. (It takes more than fleeting moods to swing public sentiment in lasting ways.) Nevertheless, a lot of people apparently do, across the political spectrum… or at least find it convenient to say they do. The right wing, in particular, has familiar anti-populist memes ready and waiting.

This week’s Newsweek attempts to cover every possible point of view on the subject in nine separate essays, but they’re all wrapped in a cover that frames things in terms of “POPULIST RAGE,” in a big scary headline. In the conservative American Thinker, Richard Baehr expresses things more baldly, in a piece entitled “Class War In America”:
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