The Biden administration's core diagnosis of what has gone wrong in America—that economic insecurity and erosion of middle-class security have driven political vulnerability to authoritarian demagogues like Trump—is correct and represents an important recognition of a serious problem requiring action.
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Martin WolfEvidence Quote
“their analysis broadly defined of what's gone wrong in America and the political consequences of the erosion of the sense of security of what you would call the middle class... has been a very important economic and political process which has led among other things to their attraction for a classic authoritarian demagogue in Donald Trump... they are entirely right in recognizing that and wanting to do something about it [48:38]”
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