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betsuni

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1. When I hear the argument that economic insecurity and inequality are responsible for Trump's
Wed May 5, 2021, 01:39 AM
May 2021

popularity, the reason Republican voters vote against their own interests, and if only we had Medicare for All and higher wages things would be different because the answer to everything is economic, I think of Europe.

Political scientist Pippa Norris (Harvard) says: "A lot of data suggests that countries with more robust welfare states tend to have stronger far-right movements. Providing White voters with higher levels of economic security does not tamp down their anxieties about race and immigration."

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