Many observers believe that these circumstances contributed to the economic schisms that led to the rise of President Trump.
"I think Edwards is a populist who has a valid message for this time of economic schisms," said John Wills, 44, who came here from his home in Arlington, Va., to see the candidates.
The surge raises tantalizing visions of new cyber-empires operating locally but competing globally -- and, some people say, troubling prospects of new economic schisms in a society that was once proudly egalitarian.
Unfortunately, for those who look back fondly to the days when government did more than just firefighting (and when Brexit was just a twinkle in the eyes of ardent Eurosceptics), there is little sign that the political and economic schisms evident in recent years will ease anytime soon.
His speeches were mostly get-out-the-vote pleas, but he defended his record on health care at a time when Mr. Trump has been trying to dismantle it, and he, too, pointed to the social, economic and racial schisms cleaving American society.
Others here refuse to believe that Mr. Humala has changed, revealing schisms that economic growth alone have been unable to resolve.
Fueled by economic discontent and a long-standing schism with Spain's conservative central government, Catalonia's separatists have tried pitching independent statehood as a fight for democracy itself.
With Sentance and the dovish American economist Adam Posen both due to make speeches this week, the schism at the heart of economic policymaking will be clearly exposed again.
Aside from the obvious schism between the abolitionists and the anti-abolitionists, there were economic factors, both domestic and inter... Official: Wait, wait.
This comes as analysts of Russian politics say the Kremlin could be worried about, and intent on discouraging, further defections to the opposition, given reported high-level schisms between hard-liners and liberals over military and economic policy.
