“The result today is a paradox. At the same time that the nation has achieved perhaps the most tolerant culture in U.S. history, the destruction of the anti-monopoly and anti-bank tradition in the Democratic Party has also cleared the way for the greatest concentration of economic power in a century.” The Atlantic’s Matt Stoller: How Democrats Killed Their Populist Soul.

+ The New Yorker’s George Packer: Hillary Clinton And The Populist Revolt.

+ Vox: What a liberal sociologist learned from spending five years in Trump’s America.