The populist right, however, has taken that idea and put rockets under it. It's black men who often find themselves on the sharpest end of a complex intersection of race, class and gender, yet the "trouble with boys" gets framed on both sides of the Atlantic as a problem of the white working classes in left-behind manufacturing towns, used to underpin the nostalgia politics of Brexit or Making America Great Again.
Donald Trump's appeal rested not just on economic resurgence but on the idea of freedom for men to carry a gun, drive a gas-guzzler, or even grab women "by the pussy" if they wanted...
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