Illusions........................

     The fall of the Berlin Wall, on November 9th 1989, was when history was said to have ended.  The fight between communism and capitalism was over.  After a titanic ideological struggle encompassing the decades after the second world war, open markets and Western liberal democracy reigned supreme.  In the early morning of November 9th 2016, when Donald Trump crossed the threshold of 270 electoral-college votes to become America's president-elect, that illusion was shattered.   History is back - with a vengeance.

-The Economist, as excerpted from this Leaders essay