Between anywhere and somewhere

IN his book, The Road to Somewhere (published March 2017), David Goodhart argued that to understand the increasing populism in contemporary politics, we must first acknowledge that society can be loosely divided into two categories of people – those who see the world from Anywhere, and those who view the world from Somewhere.

While he derived his hypothesis from post-Brexit Britain and the populist support behind Donald Trump’s election as POTUS, I personally think that his hypothesis can be applied to other societies, even Malaysia.