Free State Populism...or Popularism?

A pair of NH House bills this week are more evidence that the NHGOP has one of two gameplans.

For a brief period in the early 2020s, the theory of “Popularism” was hot stuff. To be clear, this is not the same as “populism”. David Shor, a young political data analytics guru, was a teenage blogger in the late 2000s, then an analyst on the 2012 Obama reelection campaign, who became nationally known for his remarkably accurate projections of how e…