The conventional wisdom holds that those “outsider” presidential candidates in both parties who are resonating with angry voters–Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina, and Ted Cruz (who casts himself as an outsider)–will eventually give way to more “electable” candidates. But the more those candidates rise in the polls, the more tenuous such thinking looks.
Two books by different economists help explain much of the voter anger we are seeing, though neither book predicted the way those sentiments are playing out or their timing. CONT.
Robert Litan (Brookings), Wall Street Journal