The Forces that Produced Our Uncertain World Persist

From Washington DC to Brasilia to London to Budapest, a new crop of leaders has come to power calling for the overthrow of established institutions and governing norms. …

The real political trend of the last decade has been the anti-establishment fervor of voting publics, or as I like to say anti-establishmentism. …

So what is anti-establishmentism?

In a nutshell, it encompasses the widespread belief that the existing political and economic systems are broken. Essentially, ‘regular people’ no longer have a say in a system that is rigged to benefit the rich and powerful, and in a system where politicians and parties no longer care to address this. CONT.

Clifford Young, Ipsos