Governing elites have always loathed and feared outbreaks of democracy. Occasionally, everyday people take it into our heads to force our version of policy on the state, an event that unnerves those used to exercising power unresisted. One such outbreak stopped U.S. involvement in the Viet Nam War that in turn limited U.S. military adventurism for 30 years. More recently, U.S. voters elected Donald Trump and British voters forced their country’s withdrawal from the European Union. None of that came with elite approval and all of it has been assailed as the sort of irresponsibility about which monarchists have warned for centuries.
Two Predictions About Elite Power
Two Predictions About Elite Power
Two Predictions About Elite Power
Governing elites have always loathed and feared outbreaks of democracy. Occasionally, everyday people take it into our heads to force our version of policy on the state, an event that unnerves those used to exercising power unresisted. One such outbreak stopped U.S. involvement in the Viet Nam War that in turn limited U.S. military adventurism for 30 years. More recently, U.S. voters elected Donald Trump and British voters forced their country’s withdrawal from the European Union. None of that came with elite approval and all of it has been assailed as the sort of irresponsibility about which monarchists have warned for centuries.