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kleinbl00  ·  2961 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Thomas Piketty on the rise of Bernie Sanders: the US enters a new political era

I would say that's the text, not the subtext. Piketty's argument is that the pendulum is swinging to the left.

He's being willfully ignorant about the right, though. The elements that are supporting Trump and Cruz are every bit as reactionary and segregationist as Golden Dawn or National Front.