Borderlands of Rojava wrote:Atheris wrote:No, he definitely wasn't the first symptom nor the cause. It began in the late 1990's and early 2000's with people like George W. Bush, but really kicked off after the Great Recession with the rise of politicians like Donald Trump, the ruling Fidesz in Hungary around 2010, and the FN under Le Pen.
Bush was not the cause. He was center-right at best and certainly not a man of the people.
I never said he was the cause. He was a symptom. The cause was the fall of the USSR and, perhaps more of a cause than that, the Great Recession.