Things Trump Is Doing Right

[Eric the Green]

(09-19-2017, 03:49 PM)Mikebert Wrote:

(05-16-2017, 05:08 PM)David Horn Wrote: On the left, you have the neoliberals that still favor a strong business alignment, the populists and the SJWs.  

I wouldn't use the term populists for the Sanders' faction.  I would call them leftists, and the SJWs progressives because SJW is perjorative.

Populists historically were socially conservative but economically liberal. Recall their firebrand candidate in 1896 was William Jennings Bryan, of Scopes monkey trial fame.

That described Bryan's approach to religion, but apart from a "social gospel," the Populist Party platform in 1892 and the Democratic Party (which the Populists in effect took over in 1896) platform did not contain social conservative proposals as far as I know.