SYMPTOMS OF FAILED POLITICAL LEADERSHIP ARE EVERYWHERE: ‘Little Trumps Are in Every European Country’. “From the perspective of many anxious op-ed writers in Western Europe, Trump isn’t an anomaly. Instead, he’s part of a dramatic populist surge occurring across Western democracies at the moment, on both the political left and the right.” We created a post-Cold War ruling class, and they totally blew it. This is a consequence.