Let Them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality
How can a political coalition remain powerful when the groups inside it do not necessarily share the same economic interests?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using Let Them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson as our lens, this Deep Dive investigates the interaction between economic power, political organization, identity, electoral strategy, and democratic institutions.
Hacker and Pierson describe what they call “plutocratic populism”: the combination of strongly pro-wealth…
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