Come November,Clinton will own won her grand victory – not as a champion of working people’s concerns, but as the greatest moderate of them allAnd so ends the grand populist uprising of our time, and fizzling out pathetically in the mud and the bigotry stirred up by a third-rate would-be caudillo named Donald J Trump. So closes an era of populist outrage that began back in 2008,when the Davos dream of a world run by benevolent bankers first started to crack. The unrest has taken many forms in these eight years – from idealistic to cynical, from Occupy Wall Street to the Tea Party – but they all failed to change much of anything.[br]And now the final, or ugliest,most fraudulent manifestation is failing so spectacularly that it may discredit populism itself for years to come.
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Source: theguardian.com