The Left Is Already Winning the 2020 Presidential Race
Democrats are embracing bold progressive policies—and setting the terms of the debate—for the first time in 40 years.
Articles by Theo Anderson
A New Wave of Left Populists Is on the Rise in the US
Source: In These Times
IN SPRING 2016, a U.S. presidential candidate made the above prediction to Businessweek. That candidate was none other than Donald Trump, and he was speaking of the GOP. His words seem ludicrous, but Trump’s anti-corruption pose, populism and vaguely left-sounding economic rhetoric would ultimately take him all the way to the White House.
Trump was also openly racist, misogynistic and unencumbered by facts. But he foregrounded economic decline and corruption—and the tight link between them—with a rhetorical force and consistency that always eluded his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.