Donald Trump is the president-elect of the U.S.
It is possible to view this as an isolated event or a trend. Coming on the heels of BREXIT this is a trend.<p>The attempts at building an interconnected globalised world are beginning to fail. A bunch of elites decided to create their own trans-national utopia unchecked by borders and dismissed all criticism as racist or bigoted. The globalisation project has been rejected by a majority of the population. Whether it is for economic reasons or just plain bigotry is something for the sociologists to study and not something I can pontificate on.<p>Also people seem to care a LOT about immigration and preserving their culture. Instead of patronising these people it&#x27;s time we tried to understand their concerns and try to assuage them.<p>There is no genuine leftist alternative. It&#x27;s a choice between center-right &quot;left&quot; that&#x27;s sold out to the establishment and the far right.Economists need to stop acting like priests in the medieval ages who justified the existing order . The rural voter who lost his job doesn&#x27;t care about the theory of comparitive advantage.<p>If this trend holds this will soon take hold in France and other European nations. This is a return to the world of the 1920s. Not gloom and doom but a much more unstable global order with every country for itself. Not what we need when we face planet scale threats like global warming.
Get out of your bubble.<p>Hang out more on subreddits you don&#x27;t agree with.<p>The divide is bridged one person at a time.<p>PS - Reposted my comment from another thread as it got flagged. Hope its OK with the mods.<p>EDIT:
His concession speech seems to indicate that he&#x27;s beginning to appreciate what he&#x27;s been entrusted with.