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Hijacking anxiety: how Trump weaponised social alienation into 'racialised economics'

  • Written by Robert Breunig, Professor of Economics and Director, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
Hijacking anxiety: how Trump weaponised social alienation into 'racialised economics'Michael Perez/AP

Polls point to a decisive defeat for Donald Trump. But his unexpected win in 2016 still has opponents rattled, fearing the same divisive rhetoric that characterised his 2016 campaign could help him scrape home.

The US has not been so divided by politics, religion and identity in decades. Particularly troubling are the...

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