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What’s more powerful than the politics of division? Actually listening to people | Julianne Schultz
US voters have shown there’s nothing inevitable about populism and big money politics. Australian leaders take noteGet our daily political email, free app or daily news podcastDonald Trump had an uncanny ability to sense grievance, channel it and promise his angry mobs: “I am your retribution.”A new generation of American Democrats showed this week that listening and responding to real grievance is more powerful than retribution. They provided voters with the opportunity to reject chaos, division and big money politics. Continue reading...
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