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I thought by this point the whole "economic anxiety caused Trump" had become a euphemism for white racial resentment. I guess some people still take it literal

• darpa_escapee 8y ago
  The feeling of financial insecurity certainly exists in Americans, but it does not exist as the reason Trump was elected.
  • martythemaniak 8y ago
    Well, that's your opinion (also happens to be my opinion) but is certainly not other people's. It was a very popular idea amongst the far-left during the campaign and immediately after. Glenn Greenwald managed to write a 3000+ word treatise on the causes of the Brexit vote without once mentioning "immigration". I thought was quite the work of idealogical contortion and purity, but I don't think it's aged well at all. Plenty of people still seem to subscribe to these ideas though. https://theintercept.com/2016/06/25/brexit-is-only-the-latest-proof-of-the-insularity-and-failure-of-western-establishment-institutions/ https://theintercept.com/2016/06/25/brexit-is-only-the-lates...