Bell argued that [the rise of far right factions] should be understood less as a straightforward product of economic conflict than as a response to social dislocation and anxiety over status.
[T]he relationship between Mexico and the United States is going through moments that are, yes, both tense and complicated, but above all, quite strange.
Even Jake Sullivan, former United States president Joe Biden’s national security adviser, said “the Washington Consensus is a promise that was not kept[.]”