The Long Global Trail of Resentment Behind Trump’s Resurrection - The New York Times

Disillusionment with the world that emerged from the Cold War has fueled a long-gathering revolt against the established order. President Ronald Reagan with the Soviet president, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, in 1987. As the Cold War ended, few considered how disorienting the world would become. Credit... Jose R. Lopez/The New York Times Supported by By Roger Cohen As the Cold War wound down almost four decades ago, a top adviser to the reformist Soviet leader, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, warned the West that “we are going to do the most terrible thing to you. We are going to deprive you of an enemy.” In the celebrations of the triumph of Western liberal democracy, of free trade and open societies, few considered how disorienting the end of a binary world of good and evil would be. But when the spread of democracy in newly freed societies looked more like the spread of divisive global capitalism, when social fracture grew and shared truth died, when hope collapsed in the communities technology left

Disillusionment with the world that emerged from the Cold War has fueled a long-gathering revolt against the established order. President Ronald Reagan with the Soviet president, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, in 1987. As the Cold War ended, few considered how disorienting the world would become. Credit... Jose R. Lopez/The New York Times Supported by By Roger Cohen As the Cold War wound down almost four decades ago, a top adviser to the reformist Soviet leader, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, warned the West that “we are going to do the most terrible thing to you. We are going to deprive you of an enemy.” In th