From Prescient 1998 Book "Achieving Our Country" - Predicted 2016 Election

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[M]embers of labor unions, and unorganized unskilled workers, will sooner or
later realize that their government is not even trying to prevent wages from
sinking or to prevent jobs from being exported. Around the same time, they
will realize that suburban white­collar workers — themselves desperately
afraid of being downsized — are not going to let themselves be taxed to
provide social benefits for anyone else.

At that point, something will crack. The nonsuburban electorate will decide
that the system has failed and start looking around for a strongman to vote
for — someone willing to assure them that, once he is elected, the smug
bureaucrats, tricky lawyers, overpaid bond salesmen, and postmodernist
professors will no longer be calling the shots. …

One thing that is very likely to happen is that the gains made in the past 40
years by black and brown Americans, and by homosexuals, will be wiped out.
Jocular contempt for women will come back into fashion. … All the resentment
which badly educated Americans feel about having their manners dictated to
them by college graduates will find an outlet.

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“Nobody is setting up a program in unemployed studies, homeless studies, or
trailer­park studies,” he wrote, “because the unemployed, the homeless, and the
residents of trailer parks are not ‘other’ in the relevant sense.”
Does this overlooked category sound familiar?

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“This world economy will soon be owned by a cosmopolitan upper class which
has no more sense of community with any workers anywhere than the great
American capitalists of the year 1900.”
Again: Ring any bells?
This group included intellectuals, by the way, who, he wrote, are “ourselves
quite well insulated, at least in the short run, from the effects of globalization.”

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