Ben Nadeff-Haffrey
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 6 Aug
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Those are the threads that political scientist Katherine Kramer was teasing apart in Wisconsin.
And she wrote it up in a book about all this called The Politics of Resentment.
That book came out in March 2016, eight months before Trump got elected, riding a wave that looked exactly like what she described.
An economic geographer picking up on some of what Kramer had discovered wrote what is to my mind one of the most satisfying explanations for Trump's election.
It's an essay called The Rise of Populism and the Revenge of the Places that Don't Matter.
And it points out that you might expect a populism of resentment to come from the disenfranchised, the very poor, or ethnic and racial minorities, to put it in his terms, among the people that don't matter.
But that's not what happened.
It was the places that don't matter.
Even the wealthy people there who voted for populism.
And that same pattern held all around the world.
The forgotten places forgotten no longer.
A vote for Giuliani in 1993 is not the same as a vote for Trump in 2016, but they share that engine.
There is some kind of deep cosmic tie between these men, these movements, these places, and these times.
Because 29 years after Giuliani riled up a group of drunk, angry cops at City Hall, he did the same thing, but this time as someone in Trump's corner.
To some who'd been in New York in 1992, what unfolded at the Capitol on January 6th, 2021, all seemed very familiar.
We've seen this before.
Marsha Smith, who worked with David Dinkins.
It's all here in seed form in the 1990s in New York City.
It's the story of the past decade, 30 years ago.
So how does it end?
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