Article: The people, yes.(World Trade Organization)

AS OUR COVER PACKAGE OF ARTICLES SUGGESTS, the Democrats triumphed in 2006 not just because of Iraq and Republican blunders running the gamut from Katrina to macaca, but because Democrats at last ran as economic populists. Although the economy was not considered Topic A by the pundit class, nearly every Democrat who picked up a Republican seat articulated the economic distress felt by regular people.

Populists get bad press. The New York Times, exploring the surprising role of populism in a front-page piece November 12, wrote an odd headline: "For Incoming Democrats, Populism Trumps Ideology." But populism is an ideology--the ideology of using government to help ...

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