It began with the global economic crisis.
All around the world, millions of people who had nothing to do with the stock market crash — who didn't earn enough money to save, much less invest, that much less speculate — lost everything nevertheless. They lost their jobs, then, in short order, their homes. They were scared.
The failure of democratic governance transformed their completely understandable fear into savage, uncontrolled anger.
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