As unpopular as Trump is now in the world, Obama was beloved eight years ago. Barack Obama had been celebrated and cheered as a sure sign that the world was at a turning point. (Indeed, a new Pew poll shows that low regard for President Donald Trump is not confined to Italy, but is pretty common around the world.) “President Obama!” they shouted. More fundamentally, workers not just in the United States, but the world over worry about losing their livelihoods not to cheaper workers in a poorer country, but to machines.

Source: Huffington Post July 04, 2017 02:03 UTC