My hunch: It is more about relative deprivation, and not absolute. That is also the point of the “places left behind” argument, not? Over time, the rich areas have grown much more than the poor, widening the gap. This is associated with far-right voting: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Existing studies suggest that right-wing populist parties (RWPPs) appeal to people in communities that have fallen behind in material terms. However, it remains open which benchmark communities app...
While I believe this was never quite legally confirmed, the arsonist was presumably the then- Chair of the public policy department at American University who was planning a heist of prescription drugs to sell to students— when he was arrested, they found 5000 pills in his apartment— and...