The Revolt of the Somewheres
The Revolt of the Somewheres National populism as a response to Anywhere arrogance HELEN DALE AND LORENZO WARBY The French economist Thomas Piketty has a real gift for assembling data. His Merchant Right versus Brahmin Left analysis is an enlightening analysis of postwar Western electoral politics post the expansion of higher education. Parliamentary/representative politics have a long history, dating back to the late C12th . The industrial revolution’s factory and office employment not only separated production from households. Men worked and networked together in increasingly urbanised societies. The shared experience, denser connections and expanding mass communications led to mass politics 1 and agitation for expanded suffrage. As democratic politics developed, the main divide was between lower-income, lower-asset folk (“labour”) on one side of politics and higher-income, higher-asset folk on the other (“capital”). With the de...