‘Trump’s Australia’ book predicts doom Down Under if he’s re-elected

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Much of this account will be familiar enough for readers, and is liberally – perhaps too liberally – padded with long quotations from various Trump speeches. Wolpe correctly discerns the nativism, populism and protectionism that coursed through the Trump presidency, though it is odd that he pinpoints their source to Sarah Palin’s vice presidential nomination in 2008. As so many observers have demonstrated, the origins of this socio-economic, cultural and racial stress stretch back much further than Barrack Obama’s presidency. They lie in a nearly 30-year story of wage stagnation, socio-economic inequality and the hollowing out of American manufacturing. These...