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Their own popular movements supposedly rebelled against a political structure – local elites often in bed with imperialism (meaning mainly the United States) – that protected the interests of the anti-people.

Based on this history, it seems likely that Russia’s effort to contain perceived enemies will lead only to economic collapse and political disarray, forcing the country’s elites to step away from their geopolitical aspirations and turn to urgent domestic issues.

The most lethal strain of leadership degeneration is escalating predation among the ruling elites.

But the post-revolutionary elites are ideologically cynical and opportunistic.

The decisive factor will be whether it is initiated and managed by the ruling elites, as in Taiwan, Mexico, Brazil, and Spain.

If there is one lesson to be learned from the remarkable history of the democratic transitions of the past 38 years, it is that when elites and the public reject authoritarian rule, they do their best to make the new system work.

The successes of Hong Kong, Singapore, China, and South Korea should serve as a powerful reminder that Thailand has great potential, if only its elites would stop behaving like spoiled children playing a game at which only they are allowed to win.

Of course, the West’s sense of invincibility was already under siege at home, exemplified in the proliferating political challenges to the establishment elites who have advanced the post-Cold War strategic agenda.

While these protests have no unified theme, they express in different ways the serious concerns of the world’s working and middle classes about their prospects in the face of the growing concentration of power among economic, financial, and political elites.

But, even were a revived Franco-American effort to succeed in getting the UN organ to endorse targeted penalties to hamstring the financial underpinnings of the Revolutionary Guards and other Iranian elites, the proposed measures appear to be too modest.

It may be true that some of that order’s elites chose to ignore the adverse distributional and employment-related consequences of the old order, while reaping the benefits.

But it is also true that the old order, taken as sacrosanct, hampered elites’ capacity to address such problems, even if they tried.

The savings would not be huge, but the moral significance would be, for the recent divided vote delivered a clear verdict on at least one issue: the public’s loathing for the country’s elites.

In The Anatomy of Fascism, Columbia University historian Robert O. Paxton writes that:“Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal constraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.”

We must remember that Mussolini and Hitler were ultimately brought to power by a king and a retired general, respectively – in other words, traditional elites, not street-fighting fanatics.

Second, we need to appreciate the special and innovative nature of the democracy created by Western European elites after 1945.

Citizens increasingly claim that political elites do not properly represent them, and that directly elected institutions – national parliaments in particular – are forced to bow to unelected bodies like central banks.

Ordinary Europeans long trusted elites with the business of democracy – and often even seemed to prefer unelected elites.

Western capitalist societies, especially the United Kingdom and the United States, are currently in the process of spooling time backward to the pre-Victorian era, for the benefit of a small group of elites that excludes the working and middle classes who benefited most from the Victorians’ social, economic, and political reforms – let alone the poor.

A massive gap between the elites and everyone else ensured that the top echelons of literature, business, and politics were managed by the wealthy few, and that the talents that would emerge a generation later, in the wake of wider state-funded education, were suppressed.

Berlin-based elites have responded to Spahn’s essay with mockery, itself a reflection of the German capital’s increasingly cosmopolitan political culture since reunification.

Today’s German elites share an outlook that is a far cry from the inward-looking provincialism of the post-war Bonn Republic.

So far, communities in the vicinity of extraction operations have often been hostile to the process, seeing themselves as the victims of environmental damage, while domestic elites and foreign companies are presumed to be the primary beneficiaries.

But instead of bowing to popular pressure, the political and economic elites have, in many cases, preferred to crack down on the protests themselves.

Most Russian elites think and act like businesspeople, not like romantic nationalists: As the economy sinks into prolonged recession, scrutiny and criticism of Putin’s policies will increase.

To be sure, reforms are – and always will be – subject to harsh criticism, with old Kemalist elites clinging to the unitary and secular republican tradition and Kurdish nationalists seeking to eliminate all expressions of Turkish national identity from the political culture.

But what are the chances of Nathalie Rykiel – or the affluent elites of France, or Italy, or the United States – adopting those values?

But European elites, preoccupied with short-term fixes, have not considered the long-term need for such revisions – to their own detriment.

Indeed, the movement lacks clear policy objectives, instead capitalizing on popular disgust with Italy’s political elites – a sentiment that led directly to the last election’s failure to produce a clear winner.

And all member states are subject to the economic insecurity, cultural anxiety, and political alienation that new political forces are exploiting by using referenda to recast politics as a fight between the people and self-serving elites.

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