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TRUMP’S REBEL YELL

BY KEVIN MANEY

@kmaney

DISRUPTIVE

A TECHNOLOGICAL revolution killed the Whig Party in 1850. A new one is blasting the GOP into splinters in 2016. None of the presidential candidates talk much about technology, yet our software-eats-the-world whirlwind drives everything that’s cleaving the country and throwing its politics into chaos. The parallels to the dynamics of the 1850s are a little scary. After all, the Whigs’ self-destruction was a prelude to the Civil War.

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Newsweek International
25th March 2016
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