Clive Hamilton Quotes

6 Sourced Quotes

Beneath the anger of Trump supporters lies something deeper – shame, the shame of no longer being able to get ahead, the bitterness that their children will be worse off than they are, the resentment of being told they are backward, and fearing that they might be. Like Russian nationalists who put their faith in Putin, and Chinese patriots who back Xi, Americans who support Trump are responding to their private or collective humiliation.

Clive Hamilton
The tectonic shifts that gave rise to Trumpism have been gathering force over the last six decades. Over that time, the left won the cultural battle and the right won the economic battle, and Trumpism is a reaction against both.

Clive Hamilton
Trump cut through with his heart-felt attack on globalization and vigorous criticism of economic policies that have enriched a few while impoverishing many. When economic nationalism combines with cultural pride, as in the case of the Mexican wall, the force is irresistible.

Clive Hamilton
Many progressive analysts have fallen for the right-wing construction of a new world. Suddenly they think they must have missed something fundamental, some tectonic shift that was rumbling, undetected, beneath their feet.

Clive Hamilton
Trump's message resonates deeply with those who feel they have been on the losing side of both the economic battle and the cultural battle of the last decades. You don't win anymore, he tells them. They feel deprived of their birthright, the American Dream. No wonder they are angry.

Clive Hamilton
By pandering to the self-interested claims of the masters of finance, Clinton did more to bring on the 2008 recession than President Bush.

Clive Hamilton