Reddit reviews The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam

I try to look for the silver linings of the Trump win.

One is, that it's a big loss for PC culture and methodology. It made the jump from campuses to the lower levels of the Democrats, and from there up to the media, and even trickled up to the top e.g. the 'basket of deplorables' gaffe. Running a campaign where you're calling your opponents to be nearly all homophobes, sexists, racists, and Nazis is an ugly path to go down, and as this election showed, has some serious downsides to your own side. Hopefully a cautionary lesson has been delivered. Talking about how you 'feel' as if that's a valid basis for debate has been dealt a blow.

The media/elite opinion has been reminded that dismissing the concerns of much of the country as being due to 'ignorance', and the groupthink that gets evidenced by not having enough intellectual diversity has been justly punished I think. For an example of what I'm talking about, look at this http://www.thewrap.com/andrew-sullivan-calls-hillary-clinton-talent-free-hack-on-real-time-with-bill-maher-video/. This is clearly what Tuchman was talking about in her book The March Of Folly: a clear, workable alternative being proposed, and an arrogant hubristic dismissal of it because of groupthink or 'wooden-headedness'.