The shock election of Donald Trump, and especially the responses to it, has profound significance for anyone in the business of democracy.
What we can we learn from the election of an illiberal demagogue as leader the world’s superpower?
It is fashionable to conclude democracy itself is to blame. But wasn’t this democracy in action – when faced with a dispiriting choice, millions of ordinary Americans rejected a deeply flawed candidate and a Democratic Party that had long treated them with disdain? Nah – let’s conclude there is something wrong with the voters.
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