How not to react to Donald Trump
There should be more serious thinking by progressives and fewer kneejerk calls to ‘abandon neoliberalism’
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[LONDON] Faced with Donald Trump’s frightening victory, many progressives have reacted in one of two ways. It is hard to decide which one is worse.
The first is pure spite. The day after the election, I met with a liberal American friend, unshaven and bleary-eyed. “This election proves Americans are not very nice people,” he said.
The second is denial. Consider a recent commentary by the Nobel Laureate economist Joseph E Stiglitz. Democrats must abandon neoliberalism, he proclaims, as if Joe Biden and team had not spent the last four years trying to do exactly that.
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