December 07, 2006
The interesting precedent of Jon Tester
Joshua Frank looks at Montana's new populist senator and the potential for a Red-State left.
When I say he’s not really even a Democrat, that may be a bit of an understatement. Tester is essentially an NRA approved neo-populist with libertarian tendencies who wants to immediately redeploy troops from Iraq as well as repeal the USA PATRIOT Act. And although nobody would consider Tester an anti-globalization activist, his position on international trade is more in line with the protesters who shut down Seattle in 1999 than with the Democratic Leadership Council.