Trump and Brexit: beyond ‘why Trump won’

Monika Krause is a Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies and an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics. Political and academic analyses of Trump’s election victory, like the analysis of the results in the Brexit referendum, has initially largely focused on the role of class, race, gender, and to some extent region. For weeks, we have taken the task to “explain Trump” to be the task to explain why so many people voted for him.