ML-Implode News - Will The West's major cities "secede" from their host countries?

"There are people in New York that feel closer to people in London and in Berlin than they do to people in Kansas and in Colorado," Steve Bannon, the white nationalist ideologue now tapped to counsel Trump in the White House, grumbled at a meeting with European conservatives two years ago. "And they have more of this elite mentality that they're going to dictate to everybody how the world's going to be run."
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"These reactionaries," Barber said, "are the last wave in a series of political attempts to pretend that sovereign states still work." The nation-state isn't about to disappear, he cautions. But Barber envisions a future where there'll be a "rebalancing of the relationship" between nations and cities that will enable greater local governance across the world for the benefit of all.

"The right-wing nationalism of the Trumps," Barber said, "will become not so much toxic obstacles to history, but an increasingly obsolete expression."

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Will The West's major cities "secede" from their host countries?