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Michael, I'm with ya until your next to last sentence:
"When, inevitably, the occasional populist protest figure like Perot, Dobbs or Huckabee appears, the affluent progressives quickly close ranks with the corporate conservatives."
Are you f-ing serious? Perot, who was about as much a plutocrat as anyone who ever tried to buy his way to the White House with his own billions? Dobbs the corporate bigot? Huckabee whose tax plan would have, while helping the poor, been a bigger bonanza for the rich than W's tax cuts? If those are populists, I'll stick with the "affluent progressives."
