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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
Cliff giving us hot takes from 2016.
Lesson from Brexit and Trump, don't trust politicians providing easy answers to complex problems. If they stoke nationalism, cast doubt on expertise, shout down rational debate, sloganeer, and appeal to people's xenophobia via culture wars nonsense, you are being taken for a ride.
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So your solution is to tell people who listen to Trump or voted for Brexit that they’re fools? You think that will really change minds?
The question you need to ask is why so many more people today are vulnerable to the appeals of demagogues. It would have been unthinkable 20 years ago for someone hated by the Republican establishment win the presidential nomination. It would have been unthinkable 20 years ago for a referendum that every major party in the UK either opposed or remained neutral about to win.