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His “solution” to the far right is pure cope.
He thinks low living standards are driving people to populist parties, so leftists should just “explain” that they can’t fix the economy.
But Leftists have the causal chain completely backwards. Voters aren’t experiencing economic pain and then scapegoating immigrants. They already have genuine grievances about mass non white immigration and demographic change and they frame them economically because that’s the language which is socially acceptable.
It’s not economic distress creating anti-immigration sentiment. It’s anti-immigration sentiment being rationalised through economics.
Gary Stevenson@garyseconomics
The ONLY way to stop the far right from taking power in your country
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