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Podcast: The Bunker – News without the nonsense
Episode: From American Psycho to Donald Trump: How yuppies shaped US politics
Description: Yuppies, successful and affluent young urban professionals, were a notable demographic in 1980s America. Newsweek declared 1984 the year of the yuppie, and these types of characters were immortalised in fiction through American Psycho. But, what were the real world Patrick Batemans actually like – and how did they shape the politics of the America we see today? And how do they tie in with Trump. Jacob Jarvis discussed this with Tom McGrath, author of Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the eighties, and the creation of an unequal nation.   We are sponsored by Indeed. Go to Indeed.com/b...