what hope for Americas deplorables

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unherd.com/2019/06/what-hope-for-americas-deplorables/?tl_inbound=1&tl_groups[0]=18743&tl_period_type=3

This is not a sentimental journey. It’s a deeply unsettling examination of the pathology of what Donald Trump referred to in his inauguration speech as ‘American carnage’.
At the time, that phrase seemed so coarse, so jarring. Didn’t even George W. Bush turn to Hillary Clinton and say, “that was some weird shit”? Didn’t everyone who smelled nice from sea to shining sea raise his or her eyes to the skies and wonder what The Donald was smoking?

interesting

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unherd.com/2019/06/how-long-will-populism-last/?=refinnar

07 June 2019 .. another interesting opinion... and its spot on about blaming the electorate for electoral defeat when the real reasons for defeat are they them selves and the contempt in which they hold the voter

"""""Are we living through a political revolution? Hardly. Only those unseated from power would describe our current global political realignments in such a fashion. The changes as seen by the voters are a necessary correction – a tectonic shift after years of being ignored. But when the powerful have lost touch with reality, defeat inevitably comes as a surprise, leaving them reeling and reaching for excuses.
We’ve seen this scenario play out over and over again over the past three years, as dissatisfaction with culture and politics has made itself felt throughout elections in the UK, America, Australia and India. Politicians, pollsters, reporters and experts have been left shaking their heads, with no understanding of what just happened.
Brad Todd, my co-author on The Great Revolt – for which we travelled 27, 000 miles of country roads to interview 300 Trump voters in 10 swing counties – said there are strong similarities between all of three populist movements in the US, UK and Australia. “In all three countries the corporate elite refuses to believe its lying eyes,” he said. “They keep getting surprised by the electorate because they refuse to adapt to the electorate.”
Another similarity is how that elite reacts to defeat. Instead of devoting a little intellectual curiosity as to why they were rejected, they blame the racism of the electorate, or its lack of education. They fail, conveniently, to notice that these same uneducated or bigoted voters are the ones who voted for them a generation ago.