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The tectonic shifts that gave rise to Trumpism have been gathering force over the last six decades. Over that time, the left won the cultural battle and the right won the economic battle, and Trumpism is a reaction against both.

— Clive Hamilton Trumpism as Whitelash (2016)

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By pandering to the self-interested claims of the masters of finance, Clinton did more to bring on the 2008 recession than President Bush.

Many progressive analysts have fallen for the right-wing construction of a new world. Suddenly they think they must have missed something fundamental, some tectonic shift that was rumbling, undetected, beneath their feet.

Trumpism as Whitelash (2016)

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