The defeat of Davos: Are the global elite in retreat?

Brexit, the decision of Donald Trump, and the ascent of populism have left the world's "liberal elites" reeling. Could Davos, their ideological natural surroundings, survive?

It's very simple to attack "Davos" - the yearly Alpine journey of the purported worldwide tip top, amid which they underline the earnestness of handling environmental change to the murmur of private fly movement, promise to ease nourishment destitution while nibbling on caviar canapes, and focus on diminishing disparity while being tended to hand-and-foot by a multitude of administration staff at selective supper parties.

Be that as it may, past the frequently jolting complexities, the World Economic Forum (or ze WEF, as local people call it), has dependably possessed the capacity to indicate its part in oiling the wheels of a socially dynamic, expert globalization partnership - safe in the learning that, to a more prominent or lesser degree, it was in concordance with the tide of history.

At that point came 2016. Toward the start of the year, when Donald Trump was still one of numerous potential US presidential competitors, and a date for Britain's submission on EU enrollment presently couldn't seem to be set, Davos regulars were astoundingly enthusiastic.