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The Failure of the Domestic Politics
By 2016, when Donald Trump was elected the Democratic Party was more attuned to the interests and values of the professional classes than blue color voters. The Progressive Party Center left parties made their peace with concentrated power that's the broader point traditionally their role was to make government of counterweight to concentrated power. And this I think accounts for the populist backlash which has mainly been in the name of a kind of right wing authoritarian hyper nationalist populism.