Rajesh Venugopal

  • Permalink Gallery

    This election was about race, not class or a dispossessed majority

This election was about race, not class or a dispossessed majority

Share this:

While many argue that Trump owes his victory to those living in poverty and political exclusion, Rajesh Venugopal of LSE Development argues that this race was about race- while being poor was a contributing factor to who people voted for in this election, voting for Trump had more to do with being white than those other factors.

Was Donald Trump’s victory a revolt of […]

  • Permalink Gallery

    Why we should thank Donald Trump for making a Hillary Clinton presidency possible.

Why we should thank Donald Trump for making a Hillary Clinton presidency possible.

Share this:

Now that the imminent danger of a Donald Trump victory in November is not so imminent, Rajesh Venugopal writes that perhaps now we can look beyond the fear and outrage to reflect on the legacy that Trump’s candidacy leaves behind.

Let us for a minute leave aside the alarm, anger and anxiety about Donald Trump’s bizarre presidential campaign. The Donald’s […]

This work by LSE USAPP blog is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported.