Nearly a decade after Brexit and Donald Trump’s first election victory, populism is still often portrayed as a revolt by working-class voters struggling to keep up with economic change. But today’s electoral shifts reflect everyday forms of insecurity affecting a much broader segment of the population.
CAMBRIDGE – In her by-election victory speech, the UK Green Party’s newly elected MP, Hannah Spencer, highlighted the link between economic insecurity and political discontent in the United Kingdom and around the world. Work, she observed, no longer provides the stability it once did. People work hard but cannot put food on the table, buy their children school uniforms, turn on their heating, or live off the pension they worked for.
CAMBRIDGE – In her by-election victory speech, the UK Green Party’s newly elected MP, Hannah Spencer, highlighted the link between economic insecurity and political discontent in the United Kingdom and around the world. Work, she observed, no longer provides the stability it once did. People work hard but cannot put food on the table, buy their children school uniforms, turn on their heating, or live off the pension they worked for.