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The Social Question with Gabriel Winant

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Is the Tea Party a Government Programme?

Younger generations in many western countries are less white than older generations. Anti youth politics actually flows fairly cleanly from, youknow, existing forms of races politics. There is a study of the tea party done by a sociologist and her colleague vanessa williamson. The real animating force behind it is hostility to social entitlements of the middle,. A resistance to illegitimate claims on those entitlements from the young and from immigrants.

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