June 11, 2016
IT'S JUST ABOUT RACE:
Rise of Populist Right Doesn't Signal Demise of Globalization : Opposition to immigration, not economic anxiety, fuels populist movements across rich countries (GREG IP, June 8, 2016, WSJ)
Right-of-center populists in continental Europe, advocates for a British exit from the European Union, and Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for U.S. president, derive their backing less from a broad backlash against globalization than from one specific facet of it: immigration, which arouses anxieties that are racial and cultural, not just economic.
Posted by Orrin Judd at June 11, 2016 3:28 PM