… In Michigan, Pennsylvania and, to a lesser extent, Wisconsin, an affinity for Trump’s message of economic populism and nationalism has surprised many Democrats. These are big, industrial states they have carried for the past three decades — and where Clinton, so far, has not fully focused. … Particularly striking […] Read more »
From ‘Brexit’ To Trump, Nationalist Movements Gain Momentum Around World
… “This is not a unique phenomenon to the United States, and 2016 is not a short moment that will pass,” says Yascha Mounk, who teaches political theory at Harvard University and has studied the rise of nationalist movements. “This is a real populist turn that has been happening for […] Read more »
The tea party spirit crossed the Atlantic during the Brexit campaign
… The winds of populism are sweeping across the Western world, and there was little reason to suppose that even an ancient and stable democracy such as Britain would develop an immunity to this pandemic. The mad-as-hell populism that in large part inspired the “leave” vote was instinctively nativist and […] Read more »
Is ‘Brexit’ the Precursor to a Donald Trump Presidency? Not So Fast
Britain’s vote to withdraw from the European Union sent a shudder through the capital on Friday as the forces of economic nationalism and working-class fury forced American political leaders to wonder: Could it happen here? Driving the “Brexit” vote were many of the same impulses that have animated American politics […] Read more »
Trump’s Coalition Looks a Lot Like Brexit Voters
If the Britons who powered Brexit to victory were Americans, they’d look a lot like Donald Trump voters. Both camps are fueled by older, working-class whites spurred by nationalism and nostalgia for a bygone era. Their economic prospects have diminished in an era of globalization, and they feel that immigration […] Read more »
Why the Surprise Over ‘Brexit’? Don’t Blame the Polls
… In a sense, the E.U. referendum joins a pretty long list of election forecasting errors. But this one was a bit different: It was not a cataclysmic polling failure. … If there’s a lesson here, it’s a fairly straightforward one: Don’t get too confident in contests when the polls […] Read more »