Well, David Brooks did know about him. Sam Francis died in 2005. He was also a racist, he flat out thought white people have a superior intellect than people of all other ethnicity. But his thoughts predicted the issues that drove the election of Donald Trump.
1. Globalization was destroying US manufacturing employment in Middle America.
2. Politicians did not understand that fact.
3. "His third insight was that politics was no longer about left versus right. Instead, a series of smaller conflicts — religious versus secular, nationalist versus globalist, white versus nonwhite — were all merging into a larger polarity, ruling class versus Middle America."
This is the challenge for Democratic candidates. How to find policies that will address these issues while maintaining policies that the winners from globalization can support.
Sorry for the change in font. I am not sure how I did that, but I like the larger font.
Link to David Brooks column
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