Reply #10: Has the Nebraska Democratic Party finally seen the light?

[Cowpunk]

I laughed out loud a couple weeks ago when former NE governor Bob Kerrey referred to Ben Nelson's legislative legacy as "progressive populism", but I am seeing a few more signs that the NDP may have finally got religion after seeing the movement building upon Wisconsin's great uprising.

I've been highly critical of the Nebraska Democratic Party in recent years for what I see as a slavish devotion to Nelsonian "centrism". During these years, "populism" has remained a dirty word among Nebraska's political and media elites. But that seems to finally be changing. This may be just a cynical ploy by the Ben Nelson Machine to capitalize on a newly energized progressive movement, but paying lip service to progressive populism at least opens the door a crack and brings some respectability to true populists.