Harnessing the Politics of Disruption
Donald Trump's election as US president and the UK's Brexit vote revealed a deep generational divide. But while cosmopolitan millennials and nationalist pensioners may seem to be staring at one another across an abyss, they have one thing in common: at the root of their frustration is a failure of political representation.
LONDON – The United Kingdom’s vote to exit the European Union and Donald Trump’s election as US president exposed a deep generational divide. Cosmopolitan millennials and nationalist pensioners – what Thomas Friedman calls “Web People” and “Wall People” – seem to have nothing in common. But both point to the same crisis of political representation.