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Authoritarians and their shitty childhoods

Authoritarians and their shitty childhoods

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Cathy Reisenwitz
Mar 07, 2024
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There’s good evidence that life has been getting worse for bottom-half Americans over past decades. Market concentration is up. Wages are stagnant. Major costs like housing, transportation, education, healthcare, and childcare are skyrocketing. Inequality is rising. Economic mobility is decreasing. Zip code is, increasingly, destiny. Fewer Americans are moving to opportunity. Precarity is increasing, along with intensive parenting and teen depression and suicide. Before Covid, average life expectancies decreased in the US for the first time in decades. Deaths of despair are up.

How much has all that contributed to Trumpism?

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