The Financial Times isn’t doing so well in its “critiques” of economics. The author doesn’t seem to know enough about the topic to say anything useful. But there seems to be a market for these kinds of vague broad brush criticisms.

The causal analysis in this article is so weak. As far as I can tell this is the paragraph that most clearly lays it out? Was it the way media portrayed the right that brought us Trump or something more fundamental? I think probably the latter.