By Ashutosh SheshabalayaAn emerging market perspective on a presumed American cataclysm.Donald Trump’s “surprise” victory in the U.S. elections should be a wake-up call for pundits and pollsters everywhere. It marks a turning point, less from the post-Second World War order than from two-and-a-half centuries of Enlightenment thinking, which conceived of a common world of ideas, values and more.
Trump does not simply represent angry, white Americans or “rednecks.” (Indeed, exit polling suggests quite a few categories of white Americans backed him.) He is unlikely to come up with eloquent “wordbites” for his presidential vision, or be rushed into a Trump Doctrine. …read more
Source: The Globalist
