Voters are angry in many countries and that is because the system is no longer working well for them, at least in their eyes. So populism has become popular.
In the US won Trump because he saw that the deplorables had to be heard. Manufacturing left the rustbelt and meant no longer good jobs for the white man in the household. The trade deficit has become way too high, the foreigners are exploiting the US. The pathetic clappers in Europe do'nt pay for defense, the US will defend Europe. Europe must pay now. The norms and values had deteriorated because of immigrants and woke behaviour (it has become difficult for whites to go to premiums universities because of discrimination). So he promised to change that with a return to christian values, even while he himself never has been a good example of ethical behaviour. He is not a believer in battling climate change. Foreigners are evil, so he believed in taxing foreigners, high tariffs even while almost all economists believe it is bad end has proven many times to be bad. Manufacturing has declined steadily from 40% of GDP to 7% and the trend probably will continue, even while Trump is fighting it. The US has no longer a mentality to start capital intensive manufacturing. Venture capital and private equity only give credits to non capital intensive companies, services. The US has no longer the engeneers to create new manufacturing.Youth unempoyment under academics is starting to become a problem.
In China the state companies can no longer be funded enough with selling land. They continue to produce too much with subsidies. They make losses and the debts are rising fast and are becoming gigantuously. The housing sector is way too high. It is more than 25% of GDP and it should be less than 15% China produces way too much and consumption is too low. Producing even more is creating problems, the rest of the world doesn't want to stop manufacturing. Producing more and more with fast growing debts is not sustainable.Demographics are horrible and the labour market is no longer growing. The 20 million farmers that started to work in manufacturing is a thing of the past and no longer a motor for growth. The hukou system is a big problem. Youth unemployment is way too hiigh, also under young academics (a recipe for revolutions).
Germany had a model of exporting more to China, importing cheap energy from Russia. Closing nuclear plants. Immigrants are becoming a problem. The subsidies to the former DDR are a problem. The former DDR is still way poorer and AfD is by far the biggest political party now in the polls.Regulation has become excessive. .
UK had the Brexit. Outside of London average income is lower than Poland and most of Europe.
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