Meritocracy No More

American Greatness
August 26, 2022

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.

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