Francis Fukuyama

What is remarkable is that if you look at the objective economic and social facts on the ground, yes, it's true there's been inflation.

Yes, it's true that working classes in industrialized democracies have suffered.

But it's really nowhere on a scale of what happened in the Great Depression when you really did have the rise of fascism.

you know, we've not really experienced that.

And that's what makes me think that there are other factors, you know, like technology, which allows people to believe things that are really disconnected from, you know, the empirical reality around them, and that this kind of extremism wouldn't have happened in a pre-internet world.