[Lazamataz]

Example: If he is anti-Globalist, explain why he spits out the terms Populist or Nationalist with contempt.

[nathanbedford]

Perhaps because he regards them not to be conservative, or even neo-conservative, but contemptible or at least misguided.

[nathanbedford]

Perhaps because he regards them not to be conservative, or even neo-conservative, but contemptible or at least misguided.

[Pelham]

“Example: If he is anti-Globalist, explain why he spits out the terms Populist or Nationalist with contempt.”

Because Levin is a self-important fool who really isn’t all that well read in American history. The Revolution itself was a populist uprising that grew organically in the years following the French and Indian War, it wasn’t just some top-down affair ginned up a few Founders whose names we all know.

Ray Raphael, whose politics certainly aren’t mine, still wrote a decent book describing the broad based populism that challenged the authority of the Crown and its high-handed policies. The Battle of Alamance Creek in 1762 led by the populist Regulators of North Carolina is arguably the opening salvo of the war for independence. There would have been no Revolution or Continental Army without the populism and incipient nationalism driving that generation.