Is Grievance Politics failing?
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Is Grievance Politics failing?
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The politics of grievance has dominated debate in both Britain and the United States. Nigel Farage, Rupert Lowe and Donald Trump have all built political narratives around anger, blame and the promise that someone else is responsible for people’s hardship.
But is that politics now running out of road?
In this video, I argue that grievance can win attention, mobilise anger and even win elections. But it cannot govern. It cannot build houses, restore public services, fund healthcare, educate children, tackle climate change or create security. Eventually every politician has to answer one question: what are you actually going to do?
The problem for Farage and Trump is that their answers remain deeply neoliberal: lower taxes, smaller government, more markets, and more blame. That does not solve the grievances they exploit. It recycles the same failed model in a more extreme form.
The alternative is a politics of care, coupled with an economics of hope. That means understanding people’s anger, and then using the capacity of government to address its causes. I think this is the moment to move beyond grievance and build something better.