The Guardian view on democracy: an uncertain year | Editorial

For the ancient Greeks, politics was way of life. We could learn from themIn the annals of modern democracy, 2016 has been pretty eventful. For some in Britain and the US, it has been a great year: in this version of events the will of the people, in the form of votes for Brexit and Donald Trump, has smashed triumphantly through the complacent expectations and blinkered preoccupations of a political elite.For others, though, electorates have delivered results that will be self-evidently harmful