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George Bush’s “Ownership Society” represents a new form of economic populism — a populism born in the Hobbesian belief that we all struggle alone in a world where life is nasty, brutish and short.
The conservatives don't play politics with real grassroots activism. Their top-down style and "buy the movement" approach is better suited for Astroturf – and this week, they're on the march.