Indeed; I think people are out of ideas. "Right-thinking" people continue to believe in liberalizing economies, globalism and so on, and they've yet to come to terms with the backlash that's fueling people like Trump, UKIP / Brexit, Le Pen, and so on. There's no alternative idea on the horizon; we know socialism isn't very effective at much more than rent capture and corruption, and we know nationalism / protectionism ultimately makes economies non-competitive globally. But we don't have a solution to the problem of global capital chasing efficiency globally, and thereby hollowing out the middle of the income distribution in Western economies.
A lot of ideas have been discredited, or at least played out. But there's still a constituency for those ideas, and there will continue to be until the orthodox "elites" come to terms with what's going on.
(And they're not really elites; I count myself as one of them, as skilled developers are not at immediate risk of being outsourced and are not strongly bound to any one country. I'm still winning from the current economic system. But I can see that it can't continue, the majority won't stand for it.)
A lot of ideas have been discredited, or at least played out. But there's still a constituency for those ideas, and there will continue to be until the orthodox "elites" come to terms with what's going on.
(And they're not really elites; I count myself as one of them, as skilled developers are not at immediate risk of being outsourced and are not strongly bound to any one country. I'm still winning from the current economic system. But I can see that it can't continue, the majority won't stand for it.)