Agreed. Like in the 1930s, right wing populist nationalism rose out of a
financial crisis. Layer on top of that years of overreaction to terrorism, all the disruption from technology, and the immigration crisis brought by years of war in the Middle East and instability from Central America to Africa, and the ingredients are there. The disruption from new technologies gives and takes away. The marketplace loves Uber and self driving technology, but if you drive for a living, you feel increasingly insecure about your future.
I think its a confluence of all these things making populism take root, and its hard to combat, because demagogues don't propose real solutions. They just tell people what they want to hear, often by giving them boogie men to rally around against.
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Posted: 02/23/2020 at 3:23PM