Re: A populist is someone empowered by Chomsky's 'bewildered herd' .. :-) Archived Message
Posted by brooks on May 3, 2019, 2:14 pm, in reply to "A populist is someone empowered by Chomsky's 'bewildered herd' .. :-)"
a little correction: It's not Chomsky's "bewildered herd" but Walter Lippmann's, whose deep contempt for the public and for democracy - like that of his more contemporary counterparts in the American intelligentsia - Chomsky is exposing when he quotes the phrase.
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