At the end of the Cold War, American intellectuals proffered lofty proclamations about the strength of American ideals, represented most generally in the Western values of liberal democracy and capitalism. This chapter focuses on what politics is about. It seems illogical to suggest that political theory or political philosophy as a tradition has for most of its history actually been about the end of politics. Modern political thought in the social contract tradition continued to search for a solution to this paradox identified by Plato and of the danger posed by politics. The great innovation of the social contract thinkers was really a bait and switch tactic. The election of Donald Trump and the vote to leave the EU were the result of many different social, political, and economic forces. The chapter explores the debates about methodology and political theory, and about the importance of context and thus of narratives.