Christopher Caldwell is editor at the Claremont Review of Books (Los Angeles), opinion contributor to the "New York Times" and author of "A Revolution Before Our Eyes" (The Gunner) and "The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties ”. He is a member of the editorial board of the review “Comment”
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LE FIGARO.- While many predicted an easy victory for Joe Biden, the result of the American election promises to be extremely close.
What does this reveal?
Christopher CALDWELL.
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Obviously a failure of journalists and pollsters.
Rightly regarded as professional misconduct.
But it also reflects a deeper problem.
With globalization, Western citizens have ceded a large part of their democratic decision-making power to experts: central bankers, designers of search engine algorithms, epidemiologists… but also pollsters and journalists.
Donald Trump, like other populists, does not trust the motives of
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