The central fact of U.S. political economy, the source of our exceptionalism, is that lower-income whites vote for politicians who redistribute income upward and weaken the safety net because they think the welfare state is for nonwhites 1/https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/946446862898282496 …
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Now, the truth is that they're wrong: consider how much, say, West Virginia -- a depressed state with a very white population -- benefits from Medicaid and food stamps. Yet it voted overwhelmingly for Trump 2/
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And by voting against its own interests, the white working class isn't just making itself poorer, it's literally killing itself 3/ https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/6_casedeaton.pdf …pic.twitter.com/th5trUAML9
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Have you ever admitted that you were wrong about everything in the 1990s debate over how trade policy would affect the working class?
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