Use Populist Rage To Push Obama

By American News Project

March 26, 2009

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Robert Borosage discusses the history of populism and the profound collapse that has led the country to this moment. With Wall Street discredited and the cult of the entrepreneur crumbling, progressives should pressure government to make regulations that will lead to a new American ethic.

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