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Well, the reason for the success of Trump, BrExit, and perhaps Le Pen is that the standard political elites (Dems and Republican in US, Labor and Conservatives

Well, the reason for the success of Trump, BrExit, and perhaps Le Pen is that the standard political elites (Dems and Republican in US, Labor and Conservatives in Britain) and the media ignored the harms to the working class from globalization through global labor arbitrage (exporting labor through trade, importing labor through immigration of cheap labor).

hackuser 9y ago
That is a common claim, but at this point it's not adding anything to repeat it. Where is the research and evidence?
- davidf18 9y ago
  Mar 2016: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/07/donald-trump-why-americans-support https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/07/donald... mid-July 2016, post BrExit: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/19/revenge-against-elites-americas-wake-up https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/19/reveng... The elites were ignoring their own voters and listened only to those with money (Wall Street, tech leadership) who wanted cheaper labor through global labor arbitrage (eg, through exporting work to lower wage countries, illegal alien reform making 11 million illegal low-wage residents legal, increasing the number of H1-B Visas). Trump spent almost half the money as Clinton and he did not take money from tech elite (except Peter Thiel) or from Wall Street elite. The remaining Dems except Sanders and all other Republicans sold out which is exactly what Trump was claiming. Instead of addressing the global arbitrage problems caused by global trade, the elites resort to ad hominem of Trump voters as Hilary Clinton said, "a basketful of deplorables." In France, there are similar issues which is why Le Pen is doing so well. The French elites are ignoring the harms of global labor arbitrage from globalization to normal non-elite people.
vixen99 9y ago
True but the fact that EU power is vested in an unelected and unaccountable elite who make the laws has been a very significant factor for Brexit.

hackuser 9y ago

That is a common claim, but at this point it's not adding anything to repeat it. Where is the research and evidence?

davidf18 9y ago
Mar 2016: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/07/donald-trump-why-americans-support https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/07/donald... mid-July 2016, post BrExit: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/19/revenge-against-elites-americas-wake-up https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/19/reveng... The elites were ignoring their own voters and listened only to those with money (Wall Street, tech leadership) who wanted cheaper labor through global labor arbitrage (eg, through exporting work to lower wage countries, illegal alien reform making 11 million illegal low-wage residents legal, increasing the number of H1-B Visas). Trump spent almost half the money as Clinton and he did not take money from tech elite (except Peter Thiel) or from Wall Street elite. The remaining Dems except Sanders and all other Republicans sold out which is exactly what Trump was claiming. Instead of addressing the global arbitrage problems caused by global trade, the elites resort to ad hominem of Trump voters as Hilary Clinton said, "a basketful of deplorables." In France, there are similar issues which is why Le Pen is doing so well. The French elites are ignoring the harms of global labor arbitrage from globalization to normal non-elite people.

vixen99 9y ago

True but the fact that EU power is vested in an unelected and unaccountable elite who make the laws has been a very significant factor for Brexit.