The marrying of the poem to the image is a brilliant feminist coup and a devastating attack on American nativism.

The United States had emerged from the war as the world s largest creditor, but it had a double vulnerability. Its financial system was unstable and prone to panics, and its political system was immature and prone to populism and nativism.

The tension between Modi s avowed economic reformism and the cultural nativism that animates his government s electoral base is a major impediment to progress. After all, the political majority that Modi needs to pursue his economic policies depends on the organizational capacity of the very people whose chauvinism is undermining him.

Trump plays to America s persistent veins of racism and nativism he vows somehow to round up and deport some 11 million undocumented aliens and fortify America s border with Mexico by building a wall paid for by Mexico. His striking narcissism (everything he does is outstanding, great, terrific, the best ) is both his trademark and his policy.

Even in the US, the economic insecurity of a vast white underclass that feels threatened by immigration and global trade can be seen in the rising influence of the extreme right and Tea Party factions of the Republican Party. These groups are characterized by economic nativism, anti immigration and protectionist leanings, religious fanaticism, and geopolitical isolationism.