How did Italy’s communist strongholds come to embrace the extreme right? It started with the China Shock. My story from Tuscany and Marche nytimes.com/2019/12/05/bus… via @nytimes
It is a story with parallels to the China Shock in the American industrial Midwest, which eliminated millions of jobs in the space of a few years, a story that helps explain the embrace of Trump.
And like in the US, the shift toward right wing populism involves nativist sentiments and conceptions of white privilege — the notion that descending into joblessness and poverty is supposed to be a status reserved for other groups
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