Agree, I think the reason we are where we are now is because of the dreadful effect of the second world war which gave birth to the current world order and the consensus political views which prevailed pre-brexit/trump.  The EU was likewise a knee-jerk reaction to the war, but does not work for the modern world.  If you study history, you find that once or twice in a century things change massively for countries/populations and I think that is where we are now, in a period of big change.