Mark Blyth and Wendy Schiller ─ Election 2016: Impact At Home and Abroad

Its often said outside of the U.S. that the American presidential election is the most important election for everyone outside of the US. This year is different. The Republican Party was unable to get a mainstream Republican through its primary process, with the result that Donald Trump is now the GOP candidate. The Democratic Party has in turn nominated a candidate with some of the highest negatives ever. Trump promises trade protection and migrant exclusion. Clinton promises college expansion and economic inclusion. But are these the policies America, and the world, needs? And what impact, at home and abroad, will the election of either of these candidates have both locally and globally. Professors Wendy Schiller and Mark Blyth discuss these issues in this forum.

Co-sponsored by the International Relations, Political Science, and Public Policy Departmental Undergraduate Groups.

[Bigwave]

Good God, why must Wendy Schiller turn every question into a 20 minute lecture based on old Democratic talking points?

[Demicore]

Thanks for another excellent video. Love Blyth!

[Kalarandir]

Wendy was spot on regarding driving bad ideas underground. She has highlighted one of the problems the Youtube Heros campaign causes. If bad ideas are not in the open to be challenged because of censorship, how then can they be combated and be shown to be bad ideas?

[Kalarandir]

With regards to whether it is an economic problem or a racism problem, I think Mark already knows the answer and I think he hints at it in this presentation. My opinion is that the racism is always there and is a natural aspect of everyone's makeup. However, economics is a multiplier and in hard times it is negative and in good times it is positive. I do not consider racism itself is not a problem that economics cannot deal with.

[nikzanzev]

Looking at issues of gender and race is fine... but fixating on them and forgetting (or ignoring) the economics side is a sure way of alienating massive numbers of poor and working poor. THAT is my beef with identity politics. That question about gender at around 56 minute mark was really about how race talk takes away prime-time from gender (understand women) talk. So if all you care about is either gender or race, then people on the left will be divided...
Fix the discrimination against the poor and you will see how many of the gender and race issues will be addressed. But many of those on the left who are fixated on identity politics are comfortably middle-class or higher, and who have assets that might be put in risk if they take any action against the current economic paradigm. So they don't feel comfortable with addressing these broad economic disparities.
One more point, in this already long rant. What about the policies that identity politics has inspired? They, themselves, are often times authoritarian (e.g. policing language-if you choose the wrong gender identity pronoun, your whole point is automatically invalidated) and divisive. Anyone on the fence, anyone who can be persuaded to join the left's cause of economic equity, looks at these toxic policies and wonders: what is it in for me? And the answer is nothing.
Identity politics, in its current form, in the current times, is a dead end for the left.

[sala]

I didn't like Wendy's talk as much during their election post-mortem. She said a few things that irritated me and sounded like pretty superficial analyses. This talk she really shows how knowledgeable she is though. Jealous of all these students who have access to these two.

[bikerjosh]

How to talk like a college student. Say "like" every second word, and inflect your voice at the end of every sentence.

[richtea]

20:55 to skip the really annoying background noise

[michaelmcclure]

Guess who's gonna have to change their tune. Democrats...

How come i knew Trump would win in January.

[peterstill]

I wouldn’t want to speak before Blythe. Or after him. The guy is so interesting and funny that it’s nearly impossible to feel like anyone is here to listen to you. I feel sorry for Schiller.

[aquious]

I’ll vote for whoever punished the political establishment the most. They are bent!

[ShakinJamacian]

I've only learned on Mark Blyth recently.

*How* the fuck does this guy have his hand on the pulse of what's going on? He called Trumpism, and he called misrepresentation through polls.

[billiamc]

Schiller was grotesquely WRONG...I feel sorry for folks being educated by her!!!

[Kalarandir]

Mark brought up quite an insightful question regarding polling inaccuracy during the Brexit campaign. However, I think both speakers have failed to realise that this is not a new issue with polling in the UK. Pollsters have been consistently been calling elections wrong by quite a large margin for decades. I think that it has more to do with the methodology of the pollsters than they care to admit and are using the peer pressure argument in order for their funding to be continued.
Additionally, the UK has been going through a fundamental shift in politics for quite some time and the old party allegiances are breaking down as can be seen by the complete collapse of the Labour vote in Scotland over the past decade to the point that the Conservative Party who could hardly win a seat in the country 20 years ago are now the party of opposition to the SNP. Mark characterises this as global Trumpism which helps the Americans understand a phenomenon that is much older than the Trump campaign.

[BalazarsBrain]

"the only way to combat racist feelings is to hear them" My concern is President Trump's ability to influence people who didn't have racist feelings before.. maybe as president, Trump (w the media's help) could persuade more people over to a more racist line of thinking.

[spartacusforlife]

the reasons people voted for brexit are more nuanced than media and politicians think. to some extent racism was a part. so was democracy, economics, distrust of politicians, political correctness but mainly it was about unrestricted free movement from European nations driving down wages putting strains on services at a time of government austerity.arguments can be made that migration improved the amount of tax taken by government but nations don, t like change to happen quickly and in case of Britain mass immigration was unrestricted because of ineffective government

[rodluvan]

touchscreen developed with Lodestar US airforce, a ww2 passenger airplane?? dafuq

[wee]

These two are chicken soup for the intellectual soul

[cuckingfunt]

If Obama had addressed inequality and poverty, you wouldn't have had poor people voting in droves for Trump.

The poor working people are sick of the 'new' left (of SJWs and identity politicians ).

[wosbwosb]

why not vote online, we do taxes online .
why not have politics, reality tv style ?