Douthat’s globalist/nativist cleavage has a ring of truth to it, but so does urban/rural and young/old. I bring this up because Douthat’s latest, “The Myth of Cosmopolitanism,” made the rounds of my social media feeds over the weekend. Indeed, Trump’s whole campaign shtick is predicated on this kind of nostalgia, which contains far more truthiness than truth. So sure, while I’m not necessarily convinced that this is the defining cleavage of our era (see below), I’m convinced it’s a cleavage. Similarly, in the United States, poll after poll shows cosmopolitan Hillary Clinton clobbering other cosmopolitan faux nativist Donald Trump among younger voters.

Source: Washington Post July 05, 2016 13:10 UTC