The Neoliberal Response to Inequality

In the 90s and early 2000s, mainstream politicians embraced a neoliberal version of globalization. It emphasized that the alternative to inequality was individual upward mobility through higher education. But there was something insulting in this offer that they didn't quite recognize,. And so then figures like Donald Trump come along. They speak to this hunger for national community by asserting a harsh, unforgiving kind of xenophobic nationalism - even outright racist appeals.