The Problem with Populists
6th January 2008
George Will has some thoughts on the subject. Huckabee as the Republican John Edwards? Well, he’d need to get more hair….
The way to achieve Edwards’ and Huckabee’s populist goal of reducing the role of “special interests,” meaning money, in government is to reduce the role of government in distributing money.
And that’s the bottom line, folks. Nobody fights to control a government that can’t pass out money and favors.