New York (AFP) – Donald Trump and Brexit: 2016 was a year of populist earthquakes on both sides of the Atlantic, spelling huge uncertainty for upcoming European elections and the direction of US policy.
On June 23 and November 8, barely 20 weeks apart, millions of Britons and Americans rejected the establishment in what Richard Wike of the Pew Research Center interpreted as a surge of anxiety about globalization, immigration and terrorism.
Globalization and immigration have shifted the jobs market and demographics in the West. Many people, even in a country built by immigrants such as the United States, draw a connection between crime and immigration, Wike said. ...
As I wrote to The New Yorker, causing them to end my free online partial subscription, surprising me even more than the anti-Trump partisanship shown by the Mainstream Media, is how ham-handed and sophomoric it has been, sort of what you might expect from a high school newspaper relishing its over-the-top reporting on the doings of their across-town football rival. For example we have come to expect images of Donald Trump like the one at the top of this article [see at link below]. Of course any excuse at all for yet another juvenile GOTCHA!
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