Victor Davis Hanson observes Middle America’s past-boiling-point attitude toward the self-entitled power of elite money, certifications, degrees and virtue signalling. Ordinary people, Hanson observes in American Greatness, have seen through the charade over the past decade as the elites comprehensively shredded their own aura of competence. Symbiotic coexistence is gone, replaced by mutual contempt.
Yay Brexit!
Brendan O’Neill in Spiked enthuses that Brexit is superior to just about anything else in the world. “There should be street parties” on the 10th anniversary of the popular vote to withdraw from the EU, he writes. “Let the bells peal for that momentous day when in our millions we said No to globalism.” The continuing surfeit of saboteurs and naysayers among Britain’s “idiot elites”, O’Neill snorts, are gripped by Brexit Derangement Syndrome.
