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Analysis: Trump’s return and the final ‘rupture’ of liberalism
Davos, Switzerland - It’s a quirk of the calendar that the U.S. presidential inauguration takes place the same day as the start of the World Economic Forum here in the Swiss Alps.
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But it’s not just timing and frigid temperatures that link the two events. For years, the gathering at Davos has been shorthand for the prevailing political orthodoxy - an assembly of well-heeled elites and corporate power brokers who exulted in the dogmas of globalization and cloaked themselves in the bromides of a liberal age.
As the stereotype went, they loved open borders (at least for big business), privileged cosmopolitan connections over national allegiance and moved hand-in-hand with a class of technocrats in the West’s political establishment that had grown steadily more distant from the voters who put them in power.
Donald Trump and the wave of populist, illiberal leaders that have come to the fore in the West over the past deca