/2016/11/28/some-more-things-i-know-about-trump/Andrew Curry's blog on futures, trends, emerging issues and scenariosSun, 26 Feb 2017 15:03:34 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com//2016/11/28/some-more-things-i-know-about-trump/#comment-6501Sun, 26 Feb 2017 15:03:34 +0000/?p=6496#comment-6501[…] Part 2 is here. […]

]]>/2016/11/28/some-more-things-i-know-about-trump/#comment-6389Wed, 30 Nov 2016 16:10:50 +0000/?p=6496#comment-6389Good post. I was also similarly struck by the ‘age of the trickster’ framing in Dougald’s piece. It works on several levels and may provide some clue as to how to approach the next four years. The usual rules of ‘heroic arguing’ certainly no longer apply and those of us on the left need to find a new strategy fast, or we will be constantly wrong-footed.
The importance of place also rings true – I grew up in Africa, and whenever I return to visit I experience a profund sense of dislocation due to the pace of globalisation – I come from a place that no longer exists. If there was any way, I would gladly return to the (of course rose-tinted) Africa of my childhood. The promise of such a return would be very seductive, and it is such an easy hook for populists to use when the old system/story is obviously broken but no-one really knows what the new one is yet…
And regarding the populists – should we be trying to contruct a progressive version of it? Is Bernie Sanders on the right track in the US? Is Labour even capable of such a thing here in the UK?

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