No matter what happens, someone is going to come out of the woodwork to claim credit for it. I don't buy the narrative that some big hedge fund guy masterminded

No matter what happens, someone is going to come out of the woodwork to claim credit for it. I don't buy the narrative that some big hedge fund guy masterminded the whole thing while the rest of humanity stupidly played into his hands. A more likely scenario is that people already had some theories about globalisation and its negative side-effects and then maybe several interest groups used their influence to help reinforce those ideas through social media. Let's not forget that there were also other interest groups that were trying to promote/reinforce the opposite view point. I don't fully buy into the echo-chamber argument. I think that by the end of the 2017 US elections, Everyone had a pretty good understanding of both candidates. That was probably the most transparent election we have ever seen. If anything, there was too much information on both candidates and it just made both of them look terrible.