Are the likes of Trump a threat - or is it uninformed disinterested and frustrated voters ? 

For starters our liberal democracy is up to its eyeballs in debt - money borrowed by "democratic governments" to bribe voters with freebie social infrastructure services. It may not sound very liberal but the economy and integrity of our financial system matters - or we will end up like Greece !

And it is easy to divert and blame the root cause(s) to Trump, or Wynne, or Harper or ..... but perhaps - forgive me - our media play an important part in this imminent debacle by fostering a culture of mediocrity, celebrity headline fodder devoid of any critical information or data. I take the current article about the opioid crisis as an example: It is excellent and informative of the shenanigans behind the Nanny State "cares" front. Regrettably it stands out as a singularity in the mass of tabloid fodder citizens are subjected to daily. Media voyeurism does not enhance liberal democracy !