The Mikado
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« on: February 11, 2009, 11:56:45 PM » |
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The post on Kansas on the other thread made me think of him. He may possibly have been the greatest weathervane in American political history.
For those who don't know, he was a journalist in the late 19th-early 20th century who first gained notoriety by being the most vocal critic of the Populist movement in the 1890s (writing a legendary essay named What's the Matter With Kansas, a title borrowed in 2004 by Thomas Frank for his great book about the modern Democratic Party's woe in rural areas), then doing an amazing political about-face and being the most vocal proponent of the Progressive movement of the 1910s.
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