Some people are still blaming Comey for the election of the 45th President. When you are living in the middle of history, it is difficult, if not impossible, to see clearly cause and effect. I read The Economist to help me look at today's world from a different perspective.
This week's cover story is the upcoming French presidential election. The Economist editors sum up the difference between the top contenders this way: "The implications of these insurgencies are hard to exaggerate. They are the clearest example yet of a global trend: that the old divide between left and right is growing less important that a new one between open and closed."
When seen in a global context, the election of the 45th President is less an affirmation of American Exceptionalism and more another manifestation of the political forces of disruption that have been moving west from eastern Europe. Will the French election disrupt the long-running European social, economic and political contract the way Brexit did?
Our response: Resist the forces that will close the future. Stay true to the openness and diversity that define American Exceptionalism at its best.
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