"All of which suggests a different answer to the question with which we began. Why is our traditional left failing? It is true that the other side doesn't play fair any more, but it’s also true that the Democrats are lost in a fantasy of white-collar benevolence. For all their algorithms and their lavishly detailed position papers, their leaders have little personal sympathy any longer with the travails of working people."
Thomas Frank at The Guardian defends "populism."
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
"America’s Way of Expressing Class Antagonism"
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