Ripped as a human punchline in his heyday, Ross Perot’s political career foretold violent change in America. Matt Taibbi's latest
To Middle America, the glib, slick exterior of the two-party system spoke to its alienation from the populace. This made the square-peg personality of Perot more accessible. You know who else has funny looks and goofy speech and would be easy fodder for comedians if they had to go on TV every day? Most people.
Voters understood on some level that Perot was being mocked less for being funny-looking than for having the temerity to run for president without going through party bureaucracies, donors, and the Washington media.. Perot was a human George Foreman Grill! A joke! Who runs for president by infomercial?tuned in to these lectures from Perot. One of the first, “Balancing the Budget and Reforming Government,” showed him holding up a card that quoted Cicero:Public debt should be reduced.
Early in the 1992 campaign, Perot was leading the three-way race. At one point in June of that year, a Gallup Pollpoll a few days later had him at 37%, with Bush and Clinton both at 24%. These were stunning numbers. It can’t be an accident that a third-party candidate rose to prominence at precisely the moment when the two parties came together on economic issues, particularly trade.
Perot ran before it became historical fact that both parties supported NAFTA – Bill Clinton hedged a lot in that race, saying things like “on balance it does more good than harm” – but the Texan routinely hammered the theme that the two parties coddled financial interests above ordinary people.
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