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Is it a mistake to focus on economic concerns?
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Is it a mistake to focus on economic concerns?

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Carl Beijer
Dec 29, 2015
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Ed Kilgore, writing for New York Magazine, has articulated a fairly comprehensive liberal critique of left politics. The latter, he argues, speaks “of white working-class voters’ concerns on noneconomic issues as representing displaced anxiety about lost jobs and low wages”.

To his credit, Kilgore understands his position in the correct terms: his target…

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