November poll more than routine changing of Washington guard

The worldwide surge of populist politics set off by the revolution in information and computer technology (ICT) has not spared the United States. Even a casual consideration of the possible outcomes of November’s general elections must conclude that the Republican Party candidate, Donald J. Trump—whom the sober New York Times excoriates as “a man who dwells in bigotry, bluster and false promises”—has a reasonable chance of winning the American presidency.

Trump—a wheeling-and-dealing real-estate billionaire who came to national politics from “reality television”—speaks the confusion, anger and despair of white working-class Americans who are losing their livelihoods to outsourcing and mass immigration.