David Brewster
Joel Kotkin reflects on what he calls The Great Rebellion sweeping the West, analysing its five main battlefronts and generally applauding the end of the neo-liberal crony-capitalism politics of the past 40 years. He writes: “What holds the rebels together is a single idea: the rejection of the neo-liberal crony capitalist order that has arisen since the fall of the Soviet Union. For two decades, this new ruling class could boast of great successes: rising living standards, limited warfare, rapid technological change and an optimism about the future spread of liberal democracy. Now, that’s all fading or failing.”
An unconventional, sometimes incoherent, resistance arises to the elites who keep explaining why changes that hurt the middle class are actually for its own good.
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