Disruptive Donald

I WAS going to write about disruptive technology but the whole week was taken up with the disruption that Donald J. Trump did in upsetting the US establishment by winning the presidential elections. The establishment was so confident of a Hillary win that the New York Times predicted 85% chance of her winning and the Economist magazine showed a cover picture with Hillary as America and the rest of the world’s best hope.

Trump’s victory repeated the Brexit phenomenom that the elites don’t get it. The voters are angry and even if Hillary had the support of women, African Americans and Latinos, it was not enough. Trump basically tapped into the anger in the dominant American white voter that life has not been good in the last 30 years, attributing this to globalisation, immigration, disruptive technology and mostly, the failure of the elites to listen.