Does the China Shock Explain the Trump Swing?
'It was in the counties where the highest number of jobs were lost because of the China shock,' Adam Tooze writes in the current edition of the London Review of Books, 'that Trump scored best in the 2016 election.' What Tooze seems to have thrown his immense intellectual weight behind is a theory of US politics that traces the white working class revolt…
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