What Kind of Populist Change do you want?

There are many divisions in our country. There are people who are doing well and there are people struggling to make ends meet who want to be better off. There is no shortage of ideas to help move our country forward. Most from conservative and liberal circles are constructive and forward looking. Others are reactionary. These ideas can be interpreted both as the positive and negative aspects of populism. One of the several accurate items President Trump said in his first address on Friday was we the people are the ones with the ultimate power. What we as citizens of this great country need to do in a decent, respectful and thoughtful manner is decide what populist course to take. Do we take the dark side of the populist tradition that has been championed by better to be forgotten figures like Father Coughlin, George Wallace and Pat Buchanan or do we embrace the forward progressive side that has been embraced by figures in our history like Robert La Follette, both Roosevelt Presidents, Harry Truman, Hubert Humphrey, Lyndon Johnson and Barrack Obama that left the country largely better off . The choice is ours.