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Well, maybe he is not embracing it. What he writes is that the GOP must find common ground with it. Hmm. I think that his last post of his on his RedState blogis indicative of the fact that some people on the right are realizing that the train is leaving the station without them. Populism works because, as the brave Occupados at Zuccoti Park and elsewhere around the country keep reminding us, the 99% vastly outnumber the few enormously rich people at the top.
Follow me below the squiggle to consider the strangeness of this development.
I spend a lot of time on the internet. Every so often I like to go over to the dark side and see what the other side is thinking (if I can so charitable as to call it that). This latest post by Erick son of Erick caught my eye, and then sort of blew my mind.
Does Erickson have anything in particular to say that is worth listening to? Well, not so much. He says the Wall Street protesters are right that the deck is stacked against the little guy and the very rich have an unfair advantage. But the real villain is not the corporations, he claims, but the government. His logic, though, gets a little fuzzy at this point.
It is not, however, that the top 1% stacked the deck against the rest of us. It is that the government, in its expansion of the nanny-state, drove up costs to everyone and only the rich had the capital to overcome it. Only the wealthy and powerful can hire the lobbyists to write exemptions in big new taxes and regulations and the army of lawyers and accountants to comply with them. Only the big guys can get a seat at the table where Washington hands out loans and grants and bailouts to its friends in Big Business and Big Labor.
The government did not directly act so as to let corporations prosper at the expense of the rest of us. The government just made doing business so damn hard that only people with a lot of lot of money could overcome this obstacle.
So he thinks that "the time is right for a Republican candidate to take up the cause of populism against Wall Street." I don't know what this would mean for all those Republican congresscritters who are in the pocket of big business. So would this anti Wall Street Republican candidate run against these people? And where would he get his millions in campaign donations?
But don't expect Erick to be heading out for his nearest #occupy encampment anytime soon. They are still dirty hippies, or rather "damn dirty communists."