11-12-2017 13:44 via theguardian.com

How far will Trump go to keep his core supporters on his side? | Nouriel Roubini

He has sold out the blue-collar voters who brought him to power, while pursuing policies to enrich his fellow plutocrats Donald Trump won the US presidency with the backing of working-class and socially conservative white voters on a populist platform of economic nationalism. Trump rejected the Republican party’s traditional pro-business, pro-trade agenda, and, like Bernie Sanders on the left, appealed to Americans who have been harmed by disruptive technologies and “globalist”
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