One thing that always annoys me a bit when reading discussions about whether Democrats should or shouldn't be "populists" is that they usually miss one thing - while Kaus and others were busy trying to neuter your party, the Republicans became populists. It's all "the real people" versus "the elite" with them. Only with Republicans it's 3 college professors, Barbra Streisand, and the homosexual mafia who are the "elite." Rush Limbaugh is a populist. This article in TAP very briefly refers to this and then lets it go.
