Closer Look: Can the American Model of Democracy Survive a Trump Victory?

From Brexit to the U.S. presidential election, polls have missed the final outcomes by a long shot, reflecting a fundamental shift in the undercurrents shaping politics. Increasingly, politicians will reach out to the "silent majority" while casting aside norms held sacred by the establishment.

Liberal elites were forced to see that their view of reality was out of touch with that of others'. The world they live in had been insulated from harsher realities. Now these barriers have started to crumble, but a new order that could bring together these different worlds is yet to emerge.