The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics

David Goodhart

The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Hurst & Co.
Country
United States
Published
15 January 2020
Pages
256
ISBN
9781787382688

The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics

David Goodhart

A robust and timely investigation into the political and moral fault-lines that divide Brexit Britain and Trump’s America – and how a new settlement may be achieved. Several decades of greater economic and cultural openness in the West have not benefited all our citizens. Among those who have been left behind, a populist politics of culture and identity has successfully challenged the traditional politics of Left and Right, creating a new division: between the mobile achieved identity of the people from Anywhere, and the marginalized, roots-based identity of the people from Somewhere. This schism accounts for the Brexit vote, the election of Donald Trump, the decline of the center-left, and the rise of populism across Europe. David Goodhart’s compelling investigation of the new global politics reveals how the Somewhere backlash is a democratic response to the dominance of Anywhere interests, in everything from mass higher education to mass immigration.

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