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Martin Wolf on the Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

The Good Fight

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The Economic Roots of Trump's Rise

There's a strong strand in the recent political science literature which don't place the economic reasons for the rise of populism. Why do you think that despite what is starting to feel like a little bit of a consensus, I agree with you in being somewhat skeptical of that consensus? In other words, I'm no problem with accepting that the propensity to vote conservative is linked with conservative cultural views. It's been obvious since the Southern strategy was launched by Nixon in the turn of the 60s to the 70s.

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