"There is a growing and, as I think all three of us would agree, fairly justified anti-elite sentiment in the West," he says. "And if you can speak to the people who are anti the elite in the West, that means that he can secure support in the West for whatever it is that he's doing or against whatever it is the elite are doing" He adds: "This is the weakness of democracy for all its many huge benefits and achievements... We have short-term leaders who have short- term thinking."

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