Will America ditch rhetoric and go for governance and expertise?

THE populist revolt that has swept the world in recent years has been driven in part by hostility towards the "elites" - the label used on educated urban professionals whose expertise, it is argued, does not measure up to the wisdom of the masses.

Hence the two recent major populist insurgencies - the decision by British voters to withdraw from the European Union, aka Brexit, …

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