The only achievement of the Trump Prevencency, from my point of view, was Operation Warp Speed. He disowned it quite happily because his base doesn't like it. So it does make one feel sometimes he's the creature of his base as much as the master of it. But I never was for mandates. I thought the mandates were terrible.
In this fourth episode of Martin Wolf’s series, the FT’s chief economics commentator discusses the rise of populist politics with someone who was hit by its hard edge: Hillary Clinton. Drawing on arguments in Martin’s latest book, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism, they discuss what the future holds for democracy, why female leaders face such extreme misogyny and threats of violence, whether President Biden can win re-election next year, and why Clinton is pinning her hopes on a younger generation of voters.
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