In the pages of Foreign Policy (a publication as “elite’ as all get-out), James Traub argues, with a stab at comic cliché reversal, that in the Western world “it’s time for the elites to rise up against the ignorant masses.” For it is those “ignorant masses” that voted for Brexit against the advice of their […]
Foreign Policy: “It’s Time for the Elites to Rise Up Against the Ignorant Masses”
The elites are indeed rising up against the masses: in the UK, they’re trying to find ways to reverse the Brexit vote and overrule the will of the people, while in the US, the Republican establishment is trying desperately to overrule the will of its own voters and deny the nomination, or the presidency, to […]