 Radical scholars argue that democracy can only become effective if it is deepened—and they feel that "Chavismo" is doing this deepening, which requires not only the greater inclusion of poor and excluded sectors in decision making but their remaking into a new "popular" identity that facilitates their autonomy and dignity.For some of these scholars, deepening also means the adoption of a socialist economy and some argue it requires taking power through charismatic leadership, which would have enough political support to conduct structural reforms (pages 313–319).In "The Weekly Standard" in 2005, Thor Halvorssen Mendoza described the core of "Chavismo" as a "far-reaching foreign policy that aims to establish a loosely aligned federation of revolutionary republics as a resistance bloc in the Americas".