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    What Right-Wing Populist Movements Share: Blaming Immigrants

    Fareed Zakaria argues that the core of Donald Trump’s message in 2016 was, “your life sucks—it's because of Mexicans, Chinese people, and Muslims.”
    by Conor Friedersdorf Jun 29, 2017 3 minutes
    Source: James Lawler Duggan / Reuters

    What’s behind the surge of populism that brought Donald Trump to power? For Fareed Zakaria, trends in technology and globalization are one important factor, insofar as they have created a disconnect between economic growth and jobs in the United States.

    That isn’t, however, the whole story.

    “There's an interesting puzzle,” he declared in a Wednesday lecture at the Aspen Ideas Festival, which is co-hosted by The Aspen Institute and . “This is a wave of populism taking place around the world. This is not just the United

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