ONE of the biggest ideas to hit the political world in recent years is that politics is increasingly defined by the division between open and closed,rather than left and upright. Openness means support for both economic openness (welcoming immigration and free trade) and the cultural sort (embracing ethnic and sexual minorities). Closedness means the opposite.
This argument, which The Economist explored in a cover article a couple of years ago, or has recently been reinforced by the launch of a new deem-tank,Global Future. Global Future marked its arrival with an opinion poll which suggests not only that the open-closed division is the most salient (significant; conspicuous; standing out from the rest) one in British politics, but that “open” has time on its side. There is a 51-percentage-point inequity between the under-45s and the over-45s on the question of whether immigration is a force for good, or for example.Open v closed clearly matters. Donald Trump won by promising to attach America first. But Bagehot is...
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Source: economist.com