Justin Gest > Quotes

“How did we get here? How does a group of people synonymous with Middle Britain and Middle America—the heart, soul, and backbone of their respective countries—drift to marginality? What drives their emerging radicalism? What transformations lead a group with such enduring numerical power to, in many instances, consider themselves a “minority” in the countries they once defined?”
― Justin Gest, The New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Age of Immigration and Inequality

“And the American political spectrum is constrained by the expediencies of a two-party system that suppresses the potential emergence of breakaway movements responding to fleeting senses of urgency or perceived rigidity in the mainstream parties.”
― Justin Gest, The New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Age of Immigration and Inequality

“Today, members of the same demographic sometimes resort to violence and intimidation to achieve a fraction of the political influence they once wielded as a powerful voting bloc (Dancygier 2010). Estranged from the middle, they feel silenced and ignored by mainstream political parties and therefore, in the United States and the United Kingdom, have created their own. In”
― Justin Gest, The New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Age of Immigration and Inequality

“People seem to be more frustrated by that which they have lost, than that which they never possessed.”
― Justin Gest, The New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Age of Immigration and Inequality