Long-developing cracks in the Western political establishment’s century-old paradigm suddenly widened this year. In the USA, Donald Trump improbably became the Republican Party’s nominee for president. Meanwhile in Europe, the UK voted to leave the European Union, perhaps opening the flood-gates to more defections. These events share a common theme: populist and patriotic passions roused by arrogant elites have fueled a rejection of Western establishments and their un-democratic, autocratic, corrupt paradigm.
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