Interesting essay. But it starts with: The quantity of votes in favor of the Brexit and in favor of Trump surprised most of us.
It's only "most of us" if you live in a liberal echo chamber. E.g. the NY Times has done some recent naval gazing, but it would be fascinating to find out what percent of their employees voted for Trump. Fewer than 10%? Fewer than 1%? So, certainly, the result "surprised" them.
Meanwhile in the real world the popular vote breakdown was:
Clinton 63,515,588
Trump 61,917,320
That's about a 1% difference. I don't see how that translates to "surprised most of us"!
It's only "most of us" if you live in a liberal echo chamber. E.g. the NY Times has done some recent naval gazing, but it would be fascinating to find out what percent of their employees voted for Trump. Fewer than 10%? Fewer than 1%? So, certainly, the result "surprised" them.
Meanwhile in the real world the popular vote breakdown was:
That's about a 1% difference. I don't see how that translates to "surprised most of us"!