Many Americans have woken up questioning how the polls could be so wrong. And wondering why a man who, according to 60 percent of the population doesn’t have the qualities to be a president, nonetheless was elected. They feel like many Brits did after Brexit. At that time the Belgium author David van Reybrouck wrote an essay based on his new book “Against Elections: The Case for Democracy”. Read it if you want to understand what’s going on and how we can make democracy function better.
Donald Trump, Brexit and what’s happening with democracy
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