Notable Headlines (26-2-2020). Once upon a time in the West
Once upon a time in the West ...The seeds of anti-establishment and anti-elite sentiment were planted decades before Trump and Brexit. Trump and the Brexiteers tapped into the schism between the “anywheres” and “somewheres”, described by British publicist David Goodhart as the few elites who live without traditional constraints and everyone else who depends on the West’s status quo values. ... ‘Westlessness’ is both a phenomenon and a symptom. A phenomenon describing a world in turmoil and a symptom of the lack of communication between the governing classes and the governed. If the West wants to find itself again, it first needs a language its own people can understand again... Is Bloomberg an Oligarch? We Asked an Oligarchy Expert ...On Monday, Bloomberg’s team tweeted a bunch of sick photos of people spray painting things like “oligarch” at his campaign office in Ohio and taping little signs that say “eat the rich” at the one in Flint, Michigan. Bloomberg’s campaign manager called th...