Mihir Sharma, Columnist

Don't Despair, Liberals: Fight

And recognize that Trump's victory is about nationalism more than jobs.

November 10, 2016 at 2:53 AM UTC

Mihir Sharma is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A senior fellow at the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi, he is author of “Restart: The Last Chance for the Indian Economy.”

Others around the world have been defeated by populist strongmen.
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Welcome, American liberals. Welcome to the special torment of discovering that you do not know your country.

You thought, no doubt, you were exempt -- immune from the shocks that liberals throughout the world have felt in recent years. And I can understand why: Because while you have suffered defeats at the hands of Reagan and the Bushes, and it seemed at times like your country would bend back the arc of history, it never really did.