> It is possible to view this as an isolated event or a trend. Coming on the heels of BREXIT this is a trend. Good practice would suggest that you need slightl

> It is possible to view this as an isolated event or a trend. Coming on the heels of BREXIT this is a trend. Good practice would suggest that you need slightly more than two datapoints to establish a trend. There's a fairly well understood relationship between both slow GDP growth (& income disparity) and the rise of extreme political views (e.g. http://voxeu.org/article/global-crisis-and-political-extremism http://voxeu.org/article/global-crisis-and-political-extremi...). When times are good, people don't misattribute their misfortune to issues like globalisation and immigration. When times are bad, they do.