Are there lessons for Canada’s elites in the U.S. election?

Canada is not the U.S. and, fortunately for our arrogant elites, we are less likely to rise up in populist anger and shake the system to its core.

Millions of those who voted for Trump, like many of those who voted for Brexit, dealt a clumsy and crude—and largely unconscious—blow against an ideology and an era that had crushed them economically and socially and took them for granted politically. In this reality there is a great irony: a U.S. democracy widely seen to be in its death throes was used to reject the very people responsible for incrementally killing it. photograph courtesy of CNN screen capture

Opinion

BY MURRAY DOBBIN

November 21, 2016

POWELL RIVER, B.C.—Hubris: extreme pride, especially pride, and ambition so great that they offend the gods and lead to one's downfall. In the aftermath of the stunning results of the U.S. election, the mix of emotions and hard-nosed analysis spans the spectrum; from feeling sorry for the irratio...

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