non-pathologizing explanations of Trump & Brexit
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February 20th, 2021
- I'm collecting non-pathologizing explanations of Trump & Brexit
- book: National Populism
- by some folks who were studying the topic since the 00s
- > It so happens that you can determine a huge amount about the economic and social prospects of people in America today by asking one remarkably simple question: how do they get most of their income?
- Broadly speaking—there are exceptions, which I’ll get to in a moment—it’s from one of four sources:
- investment class: returns on investment
- salary class: a monthly salary
- wage class: an hourly wage
- welfare class: a government welfare check
- People who get most of their income from one of those four things have a great many interests in common, so much so that it’s meaningful to speak of the American people as divided into an investment class, a salary class, a wage class, and a welfare class.
- and basically the non-pathologizing explanations of Trump & Brexit is that the wage class has been rekt since 1970 by immigration and off-shoring of manufacturing, and then blamed for their own suffering
- and Trump invites the same sneering from salary class folks, so even though he has so much money, he feels like one of them
- This one describes 3 distinct class ladders (labor, gentry, elite) that have very few ways to move between them, though some ways to move up within.
- Seems like I'm G2
- keywords: class status ladders elite e1 e2 e3 e4 g1 g2 g3 g4 l1 l2 l3 l4
- it's been removed from the original blog (which is still up) suggesting that maybe its author recanted