Our contemporary political discourse is rightly dominated by concerns over a disconnected and often undemocratic elite lording it over the humble hoi polloi. Efforts to rectify this egregious imbalance have manifested in populist revolt, which has ultimately been contained. The Establishment has overseen the ejection and now prosecution of Trump in America, the deliberate delay and then attenuation of Brexit in the UK, and the wearing down of the gilets jaunes movement in France. Why all this should be so was predicted with great clarity one hundred years ago by the Italian school of elitism.
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