The Trailer: 2020 has its candidate for people who hate politicians
In an interview near his motel, Yang said there was no special process for brainstorming these ideas. He is happy to point out that the"universal basic income" concept has been around for decades and nearly became law in the 1970s. The problems are obvious, the solutions are out there, but people with more traditional political minds have just been too hidebound to talk about them.
So far, the"curiosity" factor has helped Yang, and he has embraced it, with a couple of caveats. He was amused by some of the memes that were generated after posters on 4Chan and other strange corners of the Internetthat it would be funny to support him. He was disturbed when white nationalists began tweeting enthusiastically about him.
There is no discussion of circumcision in Yang's stump speech. Instead, he tells audiences that he spent a career in business and saw firsthand the decline in America that fueled the rise of right-wing populism. The questions for Yang in Randolph were mostly friendly; even the skeptical ones, like about the risk of inflation if every American got a fat check in the mail, were the kind of elementary stuff he had dealt with before. When the talk was over, the three dozen people at the house party grabbed every copy of Yang's book, and some made plans to see him talk again.
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