Populism (not really about popularity) - Segundo Izurieta by SEGUNDO XAVIER IZURIETA ARREAGA https://padlet.com/sxizurieta/6ky9z3z87yd6tqel For Mr. Chonillo - Note: You can scroll down the posts. en-us 2022-11-24 15:36:29 UTC 2022-11-26 01:09:50 UTC hello@padlet.com 19th Century (1860-1890) - Antecedents sxizurieta https://padlet.com/sxizurieta/6ky9z3z87yd6tqel/wish/2397238510
  • Manifest Destiny in the United States. Expanding, getting wealthier, and eliminating more Native Indians.
  • Excessive growth in farming.
  • Not many farmers could afford the technology to harvest the crops easier.
  • Crop prices then plummeted.
  • Many farmers became extremely poor, and the federal government didn't help for the most part.
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  • Farmers, union leaders, and organizations allied in Kansas into a party called the "Populists" (to the people). The term "populism" was born.
  • Populism is a political approach that appeals to the common people who have concerns with elite groups. It comes from the phrase "to the people". Therefore, it intervenes and helps the common people.
  • The Populist Party was striking for reforms in the nation.
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  • The Populists nominated James B. Weaver for president, but he just won 8% of the votes, capturing 5 states.
  • Then the populists sent 8 members to Congress and got plenty of state legislature seats. However, at the time, nativists and racists blamed Jewish immigrants and Chinese railroad workers for their woes.
  • The Jim Crow era was happening, too.
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  • Populist Party allied with the Democratic party (the Southerners).
  • They nominated William Jennings Bryan, a beneficial populist politic, as president.
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  • Governor of Louisiana and Senator Huey Long led a left-wing movement: the Share Our Wealth Plan
  • Demanded an equal redistribution of riches for everyone.
  • The plan capped a total of 50 million dollars.
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  • Senator Joseph McCarthy arrived.
  • He claimed communists intruded on government powers and attacked the liberal elites.
  • Increased the outcry of the original populists.
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  • Governor George Wallace was a hardcore segregationist.
  • Used populist rhetoric to capitalize on the whites' anger of the grand social changes.
  • His followers menaced the government, Vietnam War protesters, the media, liberals and the elite.
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  • Barack Obama became the president in the 2008 election.
  • Made the Affordable Care Act.
  • The laws covered 20 million Americans. However, it left the private healthcare industry intact.
  • People then considered all this radical and evil.
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  • In that year's Democratic primaries, Bernie Sanders spoke against Wall Street and the government about the financial crisis of 2008, and the great recession after it.
  • Proposed economic policies so all the people could have what they needed and massively improve the economy.
  • Donald Trump became president and declared that people could pay less money. He also made a populist appeal to the economic and social insecurity of lots of Americans.
  • Declared his opponents and the media as the elite, and had a tone close to the factions of the populist movements in the 19th century.
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