"While Democrats pursue the impeachment of President Donald Trump for pressuring foreign countries to investigate Joe and Hunter Biden, they are left making an argument that is at once true and electorally and ethically compromising: What Trump did — and continues to do — was an impeachable abuse of power, and it should be considered separately … Continue reading Joe Biden and the Problem of Corruption in U.S. Politics
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Brahmin Left vs. Merchant Right: Rising Inequality and the Changing Structure of Political Conflict
ConclusionsGlobalisation/migration (domestic vs external inequality) and educational expansion (education vs property inequality) have created new multi-dimensional conflicts about inequality, leading to the collapse of the postwar left-vs-right party system.Why didn’t democracy reduce inequality?Because multi-dimensional coalitions are complicated.Without a strong egalitarian-internationalist platform, it’s difficult to have the low-education, low-income voters from all origins vote for the … Continue reading Brahmin Left vs. Merchant Right: Rising Inequality and the Changing Structure of Political Conflict
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