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Entry: A Revolution Betrayed? Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/a_revolution_betrayed#16981 Post contents: Ron Paul is the Eugene McCarthy of the Right...I've always thought that Ron Paul's popularity is more "populist" then "libertarian", for instance the opossition to a "National BanK", ie, the FED, has been a populist position since Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. His anti-interventionist, anti-internationalist position seems more like the old anti-imperialism of the People's Party or the Progressive Party then some imagined "Old Right"...that never existed except in Justin's fevered imagination. The Ron Paul campaign has failed to influence the direction of the country as I predicted, although Ron Paul has been tremendously successful compared to the so-called "antiwar" Left, like Kuchinch or Nader. It's a beginning, but it's main problem is the main problem the "right has faced from the beginning, this blend of "fusionism"---trying to combine Wall Street econommics with populist sentiments on social and foreign policy issues. Sent at: 2008 05 16