Trump and Brexit: The Cost of Failure to Empathize

The success of Donald Trump and the Brexit campaign in 2016 exposed divisions within British and American society that empathy could help to mitigate. But empathy also helps explain why these successes happened in the first place.

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ESO: In Focus: Brexit - The United Kingdom and the European Union http://www.europeansources.info/record/brexit-the-united-kingdom-and-the-european-union/

ESO: Background information: UK: From Nasty Party To Nasty Country http://www.europeansources.info/record/uk-from-nasty-party-to-nasty-country/

ESO: Background information: Britain’s liberal elite can’t wash their hands of Brexit http://www.europeansources.info/record/britains-liberal-elite-cant-wash-their-hands-of-brexit/

ESO: Background information: Brexit and the Rise of Rejectionism http://www.europeansources.info/record/brexit-and-the-rise-of-rejectionism/

ESO: Background information: World becomes unpredictable as ‘populist’ Trump wins US election http://www.europeansources.info/record/world-becomes-unpredictable-as-populist-trump-wins-us-election/

The Economist, 24.11.16: What the world worries about http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/11/daily-chart-17

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