Others have mentioned this... the leaders of the West, the Political/Media axis, are increasingly detached from reality and exist within a 'consensus bubble' that reinforces their isolation from the rest of the population and like a hall of mirrors, keeps reflecting and re-reflecting their views, dogmas and prejudices, over and over again.
This is worrying in itself, but that there is virtually no opposition anymore within the mainstream Political/Media axis. The oppostion has been cancelled.
Increasingly, repeatedly, reality doesn't matter to the West's ruling elite, as much as what they want reality to be. This is dangerous and doesn't bode well for the future.
What's perhaps more disturbing, is that the signs of opposition, such as it is at this time, are coming from the nationalist right in Germany, France, Italy, the US. The 'social left' have merged with the 'social right' in most countries forming a 'social centre' that massively dominates in a parliamentary context.