It is hardly a stretch to suggest that President Donald Trump’s election was a direct result of the financial crisis. istrust led to new political movements: the Tea Party for those who didn’t trust the government and Occupy Wall Street for those who didn’t trust big business. If history tells us the political divisions we have seen since the financial crisis were predictable, then what does history have to say about what comes next? He paused for a moment, signaling he didn’t want to contemplate what that later manifested. But he continued, “Which then, 10 years later, led to Pearl Harbor.”There are, of course, many steps between populism and war.

Source: bd News24 September 11, 2018 06:33 UTC