I’m in Australia so I can definitely relate to a lot of that!

I think populists have been extremely clever to conflate historical issues relating to poverty and rural areas with trending topics like immigration and “wealthy inner city elites”.

Ironically, it’s the people like Trump and other right wingers who are most likely to create poor outcomes for the worst off among their own followers, but as long as those people are fuelled by rage, bigotry and a carefully constructed narrative they will remain none the wiser.