Trump, Brexit, and Racial Grievance with Mehdi Hasan

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

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🗓️ 28 August 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump’s victory wasn’t the only 2016 election result to shock the world. Just months earlier voters in the United Kingdom made history when they opted for Brexit, thereby initiating the withdrawal of the UK from the European Union. While the two elections took place on opposite sides of the world, the roots of both winning movements can be traced to similar origins. British journalist Mehdi Hasan talks about the role of racial grievances from the US to the UK, where things stand with Brexit, and how many people are feeling intense ‘Bregret’. Email us at [email protected] Tweet using #WITHpod Read more at nbcnews.com/whyisthishappening

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0:00.0	It's crazy every right-wing event that happens in the US.
0:02.8	It's like Nigel Farage is there.
0:04.3	Yeah.
0:05.3	He met Donald Trump before Theresa made it.
0:06.3	My favorite was Nigel Farage and Donald Trump
0:08.2	in Mississippi at one point.
0:09.4	It's like, what did I just take acid?
0:12.3	Like, what do they both have in common?
0:14.0	They're both rich upper middle class or upper class folks
0:16.6	pretending to be kind of working or class populist.
0:19.0	The blue collar billion in Nigel Farage
0:20.5	is a former city trader private schoolboy.
0:22.3	That's the best part of that.
0:23.5	In his pinstripe suit pretending to be the voice
0:25.5	of kind of disenfranchised factory workers
0:27.9	in the north of England.
0:31.0	Hello and welcome to Why is this happening with me?
0:34.6	Your host, Chris Ace.
0:35.8	So when I was 21 years old in the year 2000, I lived in Italy.
0:42.8	And I studied in Italy in a city called Bologna, which is sort
0:46.4	of the, trying to think of the best way to think of it.
0:48.1	It's kind of the Boston of Italy in that it's the big university
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