20 Anne Case and Angus Deaton. “Rising morbidity and mortality in midlife among white non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st century,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 112 no.9, 17 September 2015. Retrieved from: www.pnas.org/content/112/49/15078.abstract
21. Huey-Burns, Caitlin. “Angry Voters: They’re ‘Sick of Politics”,” RealClear Politics, 11 January 2016, Retrieved from: www.realclearpolitics,com/articles/2016/01/11/angry_voters_theyre_sick_of _politics_129271.html
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid.
24. Kondracke, Morton. “The 24% Manifesto,” a review of Greg Orman’s A Declaration of Independents (Greenleaf, 2016), The Wall Street Journal, 8 June 2016, p. A11.
25. Norm Gidron and Peter A. Hall. “Populism as a Problem of Social Integration, Sage Journals, 16 October 2019. Retrieved from: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0010414019879947
26. Bishop, Matthew. “The People vs. the Government: Two political scientists say that Americans’ opinion of federal power has been manipulated and we’re now paying the price,” The New York Times Book Review, p14. A review of American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper, by Jacon S. Hacker and Paul Pierson, Simon and Schuster.
27. This more than ideological divisions among voters accounts for the divisions in the country. Yuval Levin points out what he calls “bifurcated concentration: in personal income, in education, in political affiliation and in cultural identity, Americans are clustering at the extremities and vacating the centre–rich, poor, right-wing and left-wing educated and undereducated.” While true, this does not count as much as the mechanics of our society which we have pointed out institutionalizes stagnation.
“The politics of competing nostalgias,” as Mr. Levin
aptly terms it, fails to acknowledge the irreversibility of “diffusion” in both the economy and culture. The hyper-individualism animating American society shows no sign of slowing, and more or less free-market economy is necessary to pay for our welfare state. The only question is, What can we do about it? How can both conservatives and liberals advance their aims in light of the decentralizing forces of American Life?
“What he calls for, in essence, is a return to the proximate. Americans must find ways, he says, to strengthen our mediating institutions that stand between the individual and the government, and especially the national government–families, churches, civic organizations, and so on.”
See: Swaim, Barton. Disunited We Stand,” Book Review of The Fractured Republic by Yuval Levin, THe Wall Street Journal, 24 May 2016, A9.
28. Anthony Salvanto, Fred Backus, Sarah Dutton and Jennifer De Pinto. “CBS News poll shows change in Trump-Cruz gap,” CBS News, 14 April 2016. Retrieved from: www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-news-poll-donald-trump-holds-onto-national-lead
29. Jeff Manza and Clem Brooks. “Why Aren’t Americans Angrier About Rising Inequality?” Pathways, Winter 2016, 25.
30. Ibid, 26.
31. “2016 Presidential Election Results,” The New York Times. Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/elections/2016/results/president
32. “US presidential election generated the highest voter turnout rate in twelve decades,” The Economic Times, 9 November 2020. Retrieved from: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/2020-us-presidential-election-generated-highest-voter-turnout-rate-in-120-years/articleshow/79075604.cms
33. Christine Zhang and Lauren Fedor, "Trump Loyalists Set Fundraising Record," The Financial Times, 19 April 2021.
34. "America Needs a Prime Minister," Book Review: Relic, by William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe (Basic, 2016), The Wall Street Journal, 13 May 2016, p. A11.
35. Kuper, Simon. Now’s the time to spread the wealth, says Pikkety,” The Financial Times, FT Weekend: Life and Arts – Opening Shot, 25 September 2019, p. 2. Retrieved from: https://www.ft.com/content/0b362d6a-df2a-11e9-9743-db5a370481bc
See also... Horbin, William. “He wrote the book on inequality. Now he has a guide to abolishing billionaires,” Los Angeles Times, 13 September 2019. Retrieved from: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-09-12/thomas-piketty-wealth-tax-billionaires-inequality
36. Primack, Dan. “Wall Street is Scared of Elizabeth Warren,” Axios, 20 September 2019. Retrieved from:
https://www.axios.com/elizabeth-warren-wall-street-worries-ec4b5cac-f002-431d-8175-4b8e2649a760.html
37. Ibid
38. Tatenhaus, Sam. “Why Populism Now? The divisions on display in this election year are not unique in our history. This season’s books offer insights on how we got here.”, The New York Times
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