As the West’s global dominance crumbles, the elites desperately want to blame Trump. They’re wrong

Asking a lot of other people about what they think may be interesting. But the real fun starts when you make it all about your own opinion. That is, of course, the secret magic of politicized opinion polling. And sometimes you wonder if there is any other type. In any case, a major recent effort by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), a gilt-edged Western establishment think tank, is no exception.

Published under the poetic title “Alone in a Trumpian World,” the study examines the “EU and Global Public Opinion after the US Elections,” that is, really, after the return of Donald Trump, bugaboo extraordinaire of mainstream Euro-centrists and their establishment nomenklatura throughout bureaucracies, media, academia, and, of course, think tanks.

Based on a large-scale opinion poll conducted with a total of 28,549 respondents last November, just…