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The Elitism Myth and Right-Wing Populism

By Thomas Frank, TomPaine.com. Posted March 25, 2004.


Heartland America despises intellectuals with their highfalutin' ways and that's why they vote for plainspoken men like George Bush or Ronald Reagan -- each of whom, once elected, did his level best to shower the nation's corporate elite with policy gifts.

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