Road to Somewhere - Rambling Readers

No cover — David Goodhart: Road to Somewhere (2017, Penguin Books, Limited)

English language

Published Jan. 16, 2017 by Penguin Books, Limited.

ISBN:: 978-0-14-198698-2

(1 review)

"Greater economic and cultural openness in the West has not benefited all of our citizens. Among those who have been left behind, a populist politics of culture and identity has successfully challenged the traditional politics of Left and Right, creating a new division: between the mobile 'achieved' identity of the people from Anywhere, and the marginalised, roots-based identity of the people from Somewhere. This schism accounts for the Brexit vote, the election of Donald Trump, the decline of the centre-left, and the rise of populism across Europe. David Goodhart's compelling investigation of the new global politics reveals how the Somewhere backlash is a democratic response to the dominance of Anywhere interests, in everything from mass higher education to mass immigration."--Jacket.

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4 stars

It tries to explain the rise of populisim perticluarly in Great Britain. While I don't agree with everything in the book, it is pretty interesting. It works hard to avoid blaming the affluent, and never using the word rich like the four letter word it is. But even while not saying the quite part out loud, it implies that both rich liberals and conservative are leaving the young and the poor behind. Which historically has not had the best results. 4/5 stars.