Opinion | A Cheer for Italy's Awful New Government - The New York Times - 0 views
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They are on to something, and that is why they won, just as Trump won because he intuited a seeping anger that too many liberals had ignored.
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They are right that almost three decades of globalization since the end of the Cold War has left too many people behind in too many Western democracies, starved them of hope or even a say, and given them the impression that the system was rigged by elites in Brussels or other metropolitan hubs.
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The 2008 financial meltdown and the subsequent euro crisis came and went with near total impunity for those responsible. Until Western democracies confront their failings, the tide of popular rage won’t abate.
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