Today at National Review Online, check out my review of Salina Zito and Brad Todd’s book exploring of the populist forces that lifted Donald Trump into the White House.
Today at National Review Online, check out my review of Salina Zito and Brad Todd’s book exploring of the populist forces that lifted Donald Trump into the White House.
Kyle, I read your review of Salena Zito’s book today. It was well done.
May I make a suggestion for you to follow up? Ordinary Americans are indeed disturbed by bigness. The entities you mentioned are a source of concern for Trump supporters – and for others.
There is another, however, which I believe will become an increasingly major irritant to ordinary Americans, a threat to our well-being that we will demand government minimize – Big Data.
Trump will have no qualms going after Big Data. He is not of that world. But the Democrats are enthralled to Silicon Valley, a hip and reliable backer of the campus politics of the institutional Democratic Party. Worse, mainstream Republicanism is hobbled by its axiomatic hands-off the free market ideology and will be typically useless.
The Revolt has many more turns to make.
That’s definitely something to look into, and an aspect of Bigness I hadn’t considered. I do plan to write more about small v. big is one of the coming political divides of our times, and how the parties might line up in ways we wouldn’t expect.