Populist Attacks on Elites Are a Dead End

If there’s one thing people on both sides of the U.S.’s political divide seem to agree on, it’s that the country’s masses are suffering at the hands of elites. For example, in a recent column in the Week, Damon Linker warns that the “global elite” are about to suffer their comeuppance:

Meanwhile, Thomas Frank writing in the Guardian takes U.S. Democrats to task for having a “Davos ideology” that has “done material harm to millions of their former constituents.”