> Neither of the candidates of the established parties of left and right will be in the runoff.<p>From one perspective, it's very surprising that establishment parties are doing so badly in Western countries. There is no real crisis in the West. There is no crisis of security (war, etc.), no crisis of economics (recession or depression), etc.<p>Compare to the 1930s and 40s, for example, when a depression beyond anything any living person in the West has experienced crushed economies, and the worst war in history swept across large parts of the world.<p>These days, certainly there are problems but there always are. Certainly there is a <i>sense</i> of crisis, but if you step back, things are actually pretty good and stable - <i>except for that sense of crisis</i>.<p>What did the establishment do that was so wrong?