Jon Meacham: Two Numbers Explain Populist Political Angst

Populist political discontent is sweeping the world and coming on US shores as well. American’s are witnessing the most “unhappy moment politically” in modern history, Presidential Historian and Time magazine contributing editor Jon Meacham told an audience at the Futures Industry Association (FIA) Expo in Chicago. But there is a way out. Populist angst- Distrust and an a high bar to obtain a middle class lifestyle are behind populism How is it that Donald Trump has captured the nomination of a major political party and independent Bernie Sanders came close to unseating establishment stalwart Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary? To…