The People's Line

The People's Line

Another iteration of the odd anti-economism critique

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Carl Beijer
Jan 04, 2016
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The idea that Trump’s popularity can mostly be explained away as misplaced economic anxiety, though, fails to account for the fact that Trumpism isn’t expressed as an economic program, but as a way to, as Greg Sargent put it, “keep the darkies out.” – Beutler

Brian Beutler has had some fun over the past few weeks ridiculing references to “economic anxiet…

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