By Selwyn Duke

We’re witnessing the death of Left vs. Right, says theEconomist magazine. Now there’s a new political divide: Open vs. Closed.

The magazine uses as Exhibit A the current presidential election, in which the battle lines have been defined (at least partially) not by the typical conservative/liberal paradigm but by “closed” free-trade skeptics — Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders — and the supposedly “open” Hillary Clinton, whom the Economist happily labels a globalist and even more happily supports. Exhibit B comprises Britain’s Brexiteers and other European patriotic movements, which, of course, the magazine also labels “closed.”

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