Rust-belt romantics don’t get it: the middle class is being wiped out too | Aditya Chakrabortty
by Aditya Chakrabortty from on (#21N3Y)
Look carefully and it is clear that rapacious capitalism has all of us - not just the working class - in its sights
At least now you know who to blame. Since Brexit and especially after Donald Trump, the quack analysts have been out in force, holding aloft their quack explanations. It is apparently all the fault of the white working classes. They got left behind and cast aside in the past two decades of globalisation - now they're making the rest of us pay.
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