The economic decline of the white working class — or maybe, less charitably, the problem is the white working class’s incorrigible racism. But that argument only briefly satisfies, because Trumpish leaders seem increasingly popular throughout the world. Trying to detect a hidden order behind the rise of Trumpish figures around the world might be as pointless as a child’s search for faces in the clouds. Many of the explanations for what’s going on in politics ultimately describe a product of this sort of technological change. The nice thing about this theory of the Internet’s influence in politics is that offers a global explanation.

Source: Washington Post January 01, 2019 01:07 UTC