Harun Onder is among those who have made a demographic observation: nationalist arguments tend to resonate with older people.27 Therefore, it is likely that the antiglobalist wave will be with us for some time to come. “Virtually every country in the world,” the United Nations reported in 2015, “is experiencing growth in the number and proportion of older persons in their population.” Europe and North America already have the largest per capita share of older persons; by 2030, according to the report, those over the age of 60 will account for more than a quarter of the population on both of
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