Copyrighted Image? DMCA | I suppose it was inevitable that the burgeoning Occupy Wall Street movement would be compared with the Tea Party, but the level of misunderstanding and myth surrounding the latter's "populist" bona fides is surprising to even the most cynical observer. Support for capitalism-and antipathy toward government interference in it-is the very essence of Tea Party populism. Occupy Wall Street, on the other hand, while being endlessly harrangued by wags and pundits about its alleged lack of goals and lists of grievances, is actually focused pretty clearly on the same thing as the populists of the Gilded Age-those whom Teddy Roosevelt called the "malefactors of great wealth." |
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