Politics in America, Races in America “For Democrats, the politics of race and class are fraught” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 November 2016 For Democrats, the politics of race and class are fraught. If you focus insistently...
Politics in America “Americans know a takeover has occurred, and they blame the establishment for it” Author Drew Kaplan Date 14 November 2016 …Clinton had been challenged in the Democratic primaries by the unlikeliest of candidates –...
Politics in America “Plenty of Trump voters chose him, reluctantly, to be an agent of disruption, which they craved keenly enough to overlook the rest of him” Author Drew Kaplan Date 14 November 2016 Donald Trump’s victory and some of the, yes, deplorable chants that accompanied it do...
Politics in America “…every major ‘populist’ insurgency is a warning about serious problems festering in our politics” Author Drew Kaplan Date 19 May 2016 In their own fashion, Sanders and Trump are protesting inequalities and the corruption of...
Politics in America “Sometimes, it seems, ‘populism’ is just a synonym for widespread unhappiness with the status quo” Author Drew Kaplan Date 1 May 2016 There was a time when “populist” meant something more specific. The word originated with...
Politics in America “The 19th-century antecedent that Trump evokes in his nativist appeals to white working- and middle-class Americans is not the populism of the People’s Party but rather that of the Know-Nothing Party of the 1850s…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 April 2016 The 19th-century antecedent that Trump evokes in his nativist appeals to white working- and...
Politics in America “The people who turn up at Sanders and Trump rallies are wed, across the aisle, in bonds of populist unrest” Author Drew Kaplan Date 1 March 2016 The people who turn up at Sanders and Trump rallies are wed, across the...