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Written by two true believers, which makes a pleasant change for books on this subject. They can't seem to resist taking a pop at liberal democratic elites for being corrupt and disconnected from the "people", conveniently ignoring the fact that the exact same can be said of populist leaders. Probably more so given the evidence! I mean, if you're ever tried doing business in, say, Russia or Hungary, or even China, you can't get far without paying bribes, and you're guaranteed to lose your business should you start making significant profit. Not so in most Western democracies, but that's another story.
Anyway, the premise is that the university-educated are liberal and open to progressive ideas, due to their exposure to different communities and scientific/evidence-based understandings of the world. They also have significant higher income potential and are more likely to travel abroad. While those without a college education tend to hold traditional values held by existing stable communities and further resent the perceived privileges, life opportunities, and most of all, the values of their fellow educated citizens. Which I think is an accurate assessment of the major factors leading to such political and cultural phenomena as Brexit, Trump, Le Pen, Orbán, and the like. The authors see this populism as a corrective force to the exclusionary globalising political and economic forces that have shaped our society since the end of the Second World War. Of this, I am less sure, but of course, predicting the future is a fool’s game, so I guess we'll just have to see. I suspect something different will emerge, something similar to fascism (an alliance between a brutal political elite, money, and some kind of essentialist narrative).
Either way, an interesting and very informative book.
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