Industrial Heartlands: Lessons Learned from the US Presidential Election
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A week ago, Donald Trump moved into the White House for the second time, and the radical shift in US politics has already become abundantly clear.
What factors drove voters in the industrial heartlands to lean Republican?
In the fifth episode of the industrial heartlands series, Will Marshall, president and founder of the Progressive Policy Institute based in Washington D.C. analyzes the centre-left’s electoral struggles and highlights the damaging effects of declining trust in governments and democracy in the US and beyond.
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This podcast is produced in the context of the Transatlantic Dialogue on the Industrial Heartlands: Shaping the Future project. A project by Das Progressive Zentrum and distinguished partners at The Progressive Policy Institute, Georgetown University’s BMW Center for German and European Studies and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and with the support of the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action.
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