In Europe, populism is sort of a dirty word, but we have this wonderful history of populism in America, including the abolitionist populists and the white and black populists working together in the nineteenth century.
Zephyr TeachoutI tend to be a kind of left federalist. There's a value to more power of certain kinds being positioned at a more local level.
Zephyr TeachoutWhat I see increasingly is that companies are playing political roles. We should actually have our research and our laws map that.
Zephyr TeachoutThere is a long American tradition of suspicion of concentrated economic power because of its tendency to corrupt government and turn it from a democracy into a plutocracy.
Zephyr Teachout