> Are you really trying to say that Trump, and not Putin, is the primary reason for this? Not sure why you're being downvoted, it's a good question. The way I

> Are you really trying to say that Trump, and not Putin, is the primary reason for this? Not sure why you're being downvoted, it's a good question. The way I see it, it's an overall pandemic of malaise, a regression to a more primal state, affecting the "West" primarily, but certainly influencing the whole world to some extent. Brexit is a symptom. The Trump madness is a symptom. Le Pen is a symptom. Putin has been a symptom and an instrument and an agent for a long time. ISIS is an example outside of the West of the same thing. Fear and lies. Facts don't matter anymore, truth is being trampled into the ground, and the world's state of mind is gradually turning dark. Where violence has an opportunity, it breaks out. Fortunately, not much of this has been translated into material consequences (except for ISIS and so on), but at the psychological level it's really bad. If it stays mostly on that level, then perhaps there is a way out eventually.