Across Western democracies, from the America of Donald Trump to the France of Marine Le Pen, large numbers of people are enraged. If they cannot find a voice within the mainstream, they will make themselves heard from without. Unless they believe that the global order works to their benefit, Brexit risks becoming just the start of an unravelling of globalisation and the prosperity it has created. 

enraged：ひどく怒った
voice within the mainstream：主流派内の声
from without：外部から
unravelling：ダメにする

The rest of history
Today’s crisis in liberalism—in the free-market, British sense—was born in 1989, out of the ashes of the Soviet Union. At the time the thinker Francis Fukuyama declared “the end of history”, the moment when no ideology was left to challenge democracy, markets and global co-operation as a way of organising society. It was liberalism’s greatest triumph, but it also engendered a narrow, technocratic politics obsessed by process. In the ensuing quarter-century the majority has prospered, but plenty of voters feel as if they have been left behind. 

the rest is history：その後はご存知の通り
engendered：ひき起こす
obsessed：取り憑かれている
ensuing：続いて起こる

Their anger is justified. Proponents of globalisation, including this newspaper, must acknowledge that technocrats have made mistakes and ordinary people paid the price. The move to a flawed European currency, a technocratic scheme par excellence, led to stagnation and unemployment and is driving Europe apart. Elaborate financial instruments bamboozled regulators, crashed the world economy and ended up with taxpayer-funded bail-outs of banks, and later on, budget cuts. 

Proponent：支持者
Elaborate：手の込んだ・複雑な
bamboozled：騙す

Even when globalisation has been hugely beneficial, policymakers have not done enough to help the losers. Trade with China has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and brought immense gains for Western consumers. But many factory workers who have lost their jobs have been unable to find a decently paid replacement. 

decently：まともに・きちんと

Rather than spread the benefits of globalisation, politicians have focused elsewhere. The left moved on to arguments about culture—race, greenery, human rights and sexual politics. The right preached meritocratic self-advancement, but failed to win everyone the chance to partake in it. Proud industrial communities that look to family and nation suffered alienation and decay. Mendacious campaigning mirrored by partisan media amplified the sense of betrayal. 

greenery：緑の草木
self-advancement：自己開発
partake：参加する
alienation：疎外感
decay：腐敗・荒廃
Mendacious：偽りの
partisan ：党に盲目的に支持している

Less obviously, the intellectual underpinnings of liberalism have been neglected. When Mr Trump called for protectionism this week, urging Americans to “take back control” (see article), he was both parroting the Brexiteers and exploiting how almost no politician has been willing to make the full-throated case for trade liberalisation as a boost to prosperity rather than a cost or a concession. Liberalism depends on a belief in progress but, for many voters, progress is what happens to other people. While American GDP per person grew by 14% in 2001-15, median wages grew by only 2%. Liberals believe in the benefits of pooling sovereignty for the common good. But, as Brexit shows, when people feel they do not control their lives or share in the fruits of globalisation, they strike out. The distant, baffling, overbearing EU makes an irresistible target. 

underpinning：基盤・根拠
parroting：おうむ返しに言う・真似して言う
full-throated：声高の・明白な
concession：譲歩・軽減
strike out：三振する
distant：よそよそしい
baffling：不可解な・当惑する
overbearing：横柄な・高圧的な
irresistible：抑えがたい

水曜日。今日はこれまで。さすがにエコノミストだ。Brexitを今までは批判だけしてきたが、今回は冷静に何故そうなったのかを読んでいる。liberalism　自由主義が勝利したのだが、グローバリゼーションに一般大衆は取り残されてしまった。アメリカのトランプもそうしたことを言っていて、この１５年間でGDPが１４％も伸びたのだが、給与は２％しか上がっていない。そうした大衆の鬱積がこの溜まった怒りをEUにぶつけたのだろうと言っている。老子は言っている。「天の道はあまりあるを損じて、而して足らざるを補う。人の道は則ち然らず。足らざるを損じて、以って余りあるに奉ず。」その通りですね。２５００年経っても政治は変わらない。富の配分の不平等です。

昨日はお助け隊の片町さん、建部さんを訪問。そのあとは村松のお墓をお参り。そして３時から供養の宴会。６時で終了。今日はいつもの会食。夜は海野塾。今朝は３時から起きていて、少しこれから横になります。１日が長いので。ではまた明日。