news flash: populism is popular...

...admittedly, contradiction is everywhere: republican rallies bewail deficits the GOP manufactured, and democrats lament deregulatory schemes they originally crafted. but no matter how hypocritical the response is, it is a response, and that represents change from decades of aloof government. it suggests a democratic renewal whereby populism--i.e., advocating what the public wants--isn't merely one popular brand of politics, but is politics itself. // david sirota, 04.25.09, alternet