Want to understand the election? Read Shakespeare

Published November 15, 2016 5:02am ET



“All the world’s a stage, and all men and women merely players: they have their entrances and their exits, and one man in his time plays many parts.” — Shakespeare’s “As You Like It”

Pundits will opine about angry working-class voters and pollsters will re-examine their flawed models. Left-wing writers will decry a racist and xenophobic Middle America and right-wing radio hosts will rejoice in the end of socialist President Obama and the defeat of crooked Hillary Clinton. Political science professors will discuss a United States of changing demographics and sociologists will dissect Americans’ reactions to those changes.

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