The Cultural War in the United States

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There's clearly quite a significant cultural division between these people. The white non-college educated population broke overwhelmingly for Trump in 2016 and 2020. Both Clinton and Biden won the white college educated vote. And I think he's onto something in terms of saying, all you people who didn't go to college, I respect you. I want to be your president too.

In this second episode of Martin Wolf’s series, the renowned FT columnist and economist speaks to Larry Diamond, a leading contemporary scholar in the field of democracy studies and a senior fellow in global democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. Drawing on arguments in Martin’s latest book, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism, they discuss what’s behind a deepening global ‘democratic recession’.

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This episode is presented by Martin Wolf. The producer is Laurence Knight. The executive producer is Manuela Saragosa and the sound engineer is Breen Turner. The FT's global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley.

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