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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 12 Dec 2016

    Did growing income inequality lead to Trump & Brexit? A skeptical view. http://prosyn.org/2FraZs7 

    7:54 AM - 12 Dec 2016
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      1. Ioana Marinescu‏ @mioana 12 Dec 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        .@sapinker Economic dislocation IS one of the factors behind the rise of Trump: analysis by Autor et al. 2016 http://buff.ly/2gFU2Bz 

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      2. Dirk Schwenk‏ @DirkSchwenk 12 Dec 2016
        Replying to @sapinker @ProSyn

        false assumption: poor more upset than middle class. Middle class sees their lives eroding in real time.

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      3. Christian Morse‏ @1639ChrisMorse 12 Dec 2016
        Replying to @DirkSchwenk @sapinker @ProSyn

        Exactly.

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      1. B-loved Dreamer‏ @maymaymeyer 15 Dec 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        The transatlantic alliance is under attack. From influential Moscow fascist Alexandr Dugin's '90's list: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics …pic.twitter.com/KZwo5dD1F0

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      1. Piers Dudgeon‏ @Piersdudgeon 14 Dec 2016
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        @DannyQuah No, it was two fingers raised to the liberal elite. And what is populism other than an elitist synonym for democracy?

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      1. Holtz‏ @Biorealism 13 Dec 2016
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        more likely the growing sense of displacement?https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/may/24/tibet.china …

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      1. Sid Henriksen‏ @sidhenriksen 13 Dec 2016
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        How is this a skeptical view? It's just another opinion with cherry-picked pieces of evidence.

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      1. nicky karunarathna‏ @NickyNickykaru 12 Dec 2016
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        NO,it's all barbaric brutality carried out by the21st-century butcher Obama theBrute who beat Hitler's records.Masses aren't asses

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      1. Utah‏ @UtahTN 12 Dec 2016
        Replying to @sapinker @ProSyn

        my sister is a Junior @ 21 with a 4.0GPA Psych/Accounting major/minor. She voted against Hillary's policy 4 higher taxes

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      1. Brian Kuhlman‏ @theoriesofmind 12 Dec 2016
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        Call this "Western Empty Nest Syndrome" - emerging nations have flown the coup and the West is left alone with existential anxieties.

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      1. ronald‏ @Ronutan 12 Dec 2016
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        Americans would never consider joining the EU. Britain shouldn't be in either. I'd bet vast majority Brexiters preferred Hillary.

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      1. Jean Claude Juncker‏ @EUPresident1 12 Dec 2016
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        I'm jean claude junker. I hate democracy. Hi✋

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      1. Jean Claude Juncker‏ @EUPresident1 12 Dec 2016
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        mansions looking down on slums...

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      1. mondomori‏ @mondomori 12 Dec 2016
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        Hm. People need “stability” (an “identity” in the face of what Buddhists call “emptiness”). Globalisation is a vast uncharted sea.

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      1. Nicholas Kadar‏ @N_kadar 12 Dec 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        I exposed fallacy of Trump-supporter stereotype & of economic explanations for of how people vote in Chs 34 & 35 of my book.

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      1. Beat Confusion‏ @BeatConfusion 12 Dec 2016
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        Agreed. Folks compete for mates ergo rank. The dynamic factor is the revolution in p2p communication, aggregating popular atavism.

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      2. Graham Davis‏ @AgendaForReform 12 Dec 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        "Trump & Leave campaign appealed raising the possibility that transatlantic powers can reassert control in changing world order"

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      3. Graham Davis‏ @AgendaForReform 12 Dec 2016
        Replying to @AgendaForReform @sapinker

        This was particularly true of Trump but both campaigns pandered to nostalgia and the loss of national identity that many felt

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