"Shuttin' Detroit Down:" A Conservative Populist Anthem
By Charles Jackson | 03/31/09 | 08:31 AM EDT | 0 Comments
“Wall Street, bank and corporate bailouts continue while small business and the little guy go under…AIG is getting another $30 billion. ’The American people are angry, frustrated and fed-up,’ I wrote last October. If anything, it’s more pronounced now. There’s a simmering but growing populist sentiment out there. If I may use a vulgarism, they - we - are pissed off,” (“The Case for Conservative Populism,” March 4).
Now, my sentiments have music.
“I see all these big shots whining on my evening news
About how they’re losing billions and it’s up to me and you
To come running to
The rescue.”
Country star John Rich has given words and music, with “Shuttin’ Detroit Down,” to the conservative populism expressed in my post. More broadly he’s given a “songwriting acumen in gauging and channeling the mood of the country, aggressively striking a note of conservative populism rarely seen in any genre of pop since country music’s response to Sept. 11,” (“A Protest From the Right Side of Country,” New York Times, March 30).
To the Republican Party, as I wrote, pay heed: “The resurgence of the Republican Party must include an affinity for everyday, ordinary Americans and shedding forever the party’s corporate image and aurora of elitism. Conservative populism can lead the way.”
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