David French on Political Polarization in America and Its Impact on the 2020 Elections
Macro Musings with David Beckworth
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Are You a Part of a Populist Rebellion?
There's been a great recession back in 2008, 2009, it was global. It affected a lot of people's very painful, slow recovery. And I think that crisis kind of built upon a lot of angst and building as a result of globalization. So you have this underlying economic angst. And today, if you look around the world, you see populism. You see countries like Poland and Hungary, which you might call really populist countries,. somewhat religious too. How do you think all of that is playing into the polarization here? Are we a part of that? Are we experiencing something uniquely different?
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