Politics without policy, or how to attract voters whose interests you disdain

The abiding lack of accountability between overtures and action is what gives right-wing populism its power for demagogues like Trump.
Populists like Donald Trump have appealed to ‘blue-collar’ Americans’ sense of grievance and encouraged them to blame outsiders and the so-called elite (by which they mean urban-dwelling liberals) for their woes, writes Les Whittington.
OTTAWA—In one of the more consequential political shifts in recent years, Republicans in the U.S. under Donald Trump have putatively capped a major realignment making theirs the party of the working class. The extent of that change may be debatable, but there’s no doubt that a fairly large numb...

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