Snap out of the win-win fantasy of liberal democracy
But accept that it almost always has room for compromise.
Washington
FEW analysts expected Britons to vote to exit the European Union or Americans to choose Donald Trump as their next president. Yet it did not take long for a consensus explanation of these miscalculations to emerge. When it comes to such complex and consequential developments, however, we should beware of facile reasoning.
The current consensus blames the "elites" - in academia, media, and business - for becoming so caught up in their relatively cosmopolitan and connect…
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