The new face of the 'invisible hand'? A photograph of President-elect Donald Trump illuminated with flood lights in a suburban backyard near Des Moines, Iowa. Credit: Flickr/Tony Webster. Some rights reserved.
In electing Donald Trump the forty-fifth president of the United States on 8 November 2016, the American people have in fact voted against Trump and the predatory system he embodies. He may have masterfully exploited the despair of the precariat to his own advantage, yet it is the precariat, the working class struggling with chronic and manifold precarity, that is using him as a weapon against the invisible oppressive hand of neoliberalism that has ravaged the middle class since the late 1970s. Seeing this momentous vote as a motley mix of racism, ignorance and fascist instincts is to ignore the conditions that make Trump possible.
