How Will Huckabee's Populism Play?

Time

Huckabee's fellow Republicans might have called this sort of talk the language of 'class warfare,' the bread and butter of John Edwards... But as Huckabee now mounts his closing argument for the Iowa caucuses, he has moved full bore into the rhetoric of economic populism. 'I am out to change the Republican Party. It needs changing. It needs to be inclusive of all those people across America for whom this party should stand,' he said Sunday, on CBS's Face The Nation. On the trail, he speaks regularly of challenging the 'Washington to Wall Street power axis.' He frankly acknowledges the suffering of the stagnating middle class, and even offers up government as a part of the solution.