[Peace-discuss] The Peculiar Populism of Donald Trump

Thu Feb 2 22:53:29 UTC 2017

Somehow, when many of the top 10% in income were turning their attention to post-materialism and personal fulfillment, reflecting the Maslow hierarchy of needs, as noted by one commenter to the Edsall article, the share of national income garnered by that 10% increased from 30 to 40%, from 1980-2014. It's amazing what the wealthy can accomplish without trying. But, also as noted by Piketty/Saez/Zucman, from whom this data derives, while labor income drove inequality during the 80s and 90s, capital income has largely driven it in this century, to the point where 2/3 of the income of the 1% is derived from investments. So, you see, there is plenty of time to climb the Maslow hierarchy while the wealthy increasingly live off their investments. But they do have to take time out, whichever party is in power, to ensure that the policies and regulations/deregulations continue to maintain or increase their piece of the pie.
And of course, the "white populists" are denigrated for not getting with the cultural program.
If you can stand it, here is the abstract for the research on which Edsall based his article:
Rising support for populist parties has disrupted the politics of many Western societies. What explains this phenomenon? Two theories are examined here. Perhaps the most widely-held view of mass support for populism -- the economic insecurity perspective -- emphasizes the consequences of profound changes transforming the workforce and society in post-industrial economies. Alternatively, the cultural backlash thesis suggests that support can be explained as a retro reaction by once-predominant sectors of the population to progressive value change. To consider these arguments, Part I develops the conceptual and theoretical framework. Part II of the study uses the 2014 Chapel Hill Expert Survey (CHES) to identify the ideological location of 268 political parties in 31 European countries. Part III compares the pattern of European party competition at national-level. Part IV uses the pooled European Social Survey 1-6 (2002-2014) to examine the cross-national evidence at individual level for the impact of the economic insecurity and cultural values as predictors of voting for populist parties. Part V summarizes the key findings and considers their implications. Overall, we find the most consistent evidence supporting the cultural backlash thesis.
Trump, Brexit, and the Rise of Populism: Economic Have-Nots and Cultural Backlash by Ronald Inglehart, Pippa Norris :: SSRN

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    On Thursday, February 2, 2017 3:07 PM, Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

 And identity politics seems to be re-christened “postmaterialism” - which strangely increases throughout the 40 years of neoliberalism (ca. 1975-presetn), while wages (increasing 1945-75) are flat, inequality grows at an accelerating rate, and the life chances of the majority are reduced, in comparison with their parents’ generation. 

> On Feb 2, 2017, at 2:35 PM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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> Right and the lack of jobs, the poverty inaccessible opportunities had nothing to do with it ..
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> Sent on my Virgin Mobile Phone.
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> From: Szoke, Ron via Peace-discuss
> Date: Thu, Feb 2, 2017 1:22 PM
> To: Peace-discuss AWARE;
> Subject:[Peace-discuss] The Peculiar Populism of Donald Trump
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> This is the most plausible commentary on the 2016 national election I have seen.
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> Note the relative absence of the usual bluffing, faking & pontificating about “the real issue,” or what made any group of voters
> vote the way they did.  Here, it was more cultural (“values”) than economic, but they were of course intertwined.
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> We saw another example of how the “little people,” looking for a national savior or political messiah, will turn to an authoritarian "strong man” 
> or caudillo instead of socialism.  I think an unspeakable issue underneath all the complaints about “political correctness” was resentment of all the fierce talk
> about “white privilege,” while all they could perceive was “black privilege”: affirmative action, welfare entitlements, special exemptions, etc. 
>    ~~ Ron
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