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Old 12-05-2018, 12:56 PM   #4276
Tyrone Slothrop
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Re: Barcelona

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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield View Post
I don't think Trump blew up anything. The process, the political system, the economy, was so fucked up, so ill, a disease like Trump appears.
Don't you ever get tired of these bromides?

Lots of places have inequality without populism. Maybe populism appears when people believe that the political parties are too similar and are not representing them. But: The people who most support Trump are not the poorest. The poorest vote for Democrats. So you need a model that explains that.
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