Behold the rise of the outsiders! A Seismic Shift in the Axis of US Politics
Behold the rise of the outsiders! What should we take from the rise of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders in the Republican and Democratic Presidential Primaries, respectively? For one thing, it indicates that there is a distinct possibility that a candidate that is not only an outsider to the mainstream political parties but also somebody who eschews the political process will become the next president of the United States. And that will be no small thing. But there is a broader view to consider in response to the rise of the outsiders, particularly when we add to the picture the support also received by Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina during the Republican Primary. Is the rise of Trump and Sanders an aberration, confined to the political dynamics of the 2016 US Presidential Campaign? I suspect that the majority of us regard this phenomenon as an unusual blip in the lifecycle of US politics. One may expect, whether Trump or Sanders makes it all the way to the presidency or not, a retur...