Jonathan Bernstein has a post today that I highly recommend, about the problem with the political term 'establishment:' Which is why I try to avoid the term "establishment." It conjures up, to me at least, a monolithic group of insiders who either control or fail to control everyone else. But that's just not the case in either political party. There certainly are highly influential groups and organizations and even people, but which ones exactly have more influence depends on context and circumstance and changes all the time, as far as I can tell. Dividing off a set of those people as an "establishment" just doesn't help us understand what's going on.
On populists and the establishment
On populists and the establishment
On populists and the establishment
Jonathan Bernstein has a post today that I highly recommend, about the problem with the political term 'establishment:' Which is why I try to avoid the term "establishment." It conjures up, to me at least, a monolithic group of insiders who either control or fail to control everyone else. But that's just not the case in either political party. There certainly are highly influential groups and organizations and even people, but which ones exactly have more influence depends on context and circumstance and changes all the time, as far as I can tell. Dividing off a set of those people as an "establishment" just doesn't help us understand what's going on.