SYMPTOMS OF BANANA-REPUBLIC INFECTION (…are beginning to affect everyday America) Our country seems to be showing symptoms of banana-republic infection these days, and it’s beginning to affect everyday America. For one thing, voter anger and disgust at the political gridlock
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TODAY’S POPULIST PIPERS… (leading folks away just as the one of old did at Hamelin) We doubt many people today recall the story about the Pied Piper of Hamelin. It was a cautionary tale about what happens when leadership fails
HOW THE INFECTIOUS DYSENTERY OF POPULISM CAN SPREAD… (…whenever discontent with a non-responsive status quo abounds…) The English have let a populist mood stampede them right out of the European Union’s collective, into an ocean of economic and other uncertainties