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The people’s movement also took the lid off social pressures often disregarded by Nepal’s elites.
So the real issue in the forthcoming Duma elections will be how powerfully regional elites confront Putin.
In principle, all of Russia's political elites appear to have - or pretend to have - resigned themselves to a political landscape with Putin alone on the mountaintop and everyone else consigned to the valley below.
The United States-led Coalition Provisional Authority empowered a new group of political elites who fundamentally distrusted one another and, more important, failed to coalesce around a shared vision for governing the country.
It opposes necessary structural reforms in order to defend its clients’ rent-seeking practices; rejects citizen candidacies in favor of unaccountable party elites; recoils from union modernization, owing to the corporatist practices that it implemented; and refuses to dismantle the monopolies that it established.
NATO’s expansion towards Russia’s own borders, and the membership of countries whose elites have historical complexes in regard to Russia, increased anti-Russian sentiment inside the alliance.
The rich countries fear that such “reparations” would disappear into the pockets of local elites; and they, too, are right.
But political elites, such as party activists and members of Congress, tend to be more extreme than the public.
After deposing his father in a palace coup in 1995, Al Thani was suddenly confronted with a hostile Saudi Arabia and Egypt, whose elites despised the ambitious young ruler and preferred his more timid father.
To be sure, both Farage and Trump are populists, but not because they criticize elites.
After all, vigilance toward elites can in fact be a sign of democratic engagement.
To this day, no right-wing populist has come to power in Western Europe or North America without the collaboration of established conservative elites.
As Harvard University’s Daniel Ziblatt has pointed out, the consolidation of democracies in Europe has depended crucially on the behavior of conservative elites.
But the lesson still holds: the choices made by established elites, as much as the challenges posed by insurgent outsiders, determine the fate of democracy.
This would require an enhanced level of European identity, something which the Union’s political elites cannot generate artificially.
European elites are fond of exclamations about “European solidarity,” “social cohesion,” and the “European social model.”
More fundamentally, AMLO’s approach to corruption is textbook populism: social problems that seem complex have simple solutions, and they have not been solved only because traditional elites do not want them solved.
Establishment parties were once controlled by globalization’s beneficiaries: capital owners; skilled, educated, and digitally savvy workers; urban and cosmopolitan elites; and unionized white- and blue-collar employees.
But these elites are unlikely to do so if their property and civil rights are not protected.
Communism can be understood as an attempt to eliminate dependence on these elites by organizing production through the state.
But excluding these elites causes a shortage of financial capital and knowhow.
What happened in Venezuela can be understood as a two-step process in which liberalism was destroyed first, to disempower the productive elites.
And it has made it more difficult for elites to bridge the gap separating them from ordinary people who feel deserted by the establishment.
Many elites are puzzled about why poor or working-class people would vote for someone like Trump.
But, like Donald Trump, it was Le Pen who ran as the “voice of the people,” whereas Macron, like Hillary Clinton, was depicted as a puppet of bankers, cultural elites, and international plutocrats.
And Trump, an ignorant narcissist with no political experience, managed to become President of the US by whipping up popular resentment against educated elites, bankers, foreigners, immigrants, and international institutions.
To be sure, Kissinger may be more sagacious than his fellow elites in claiming that there is more to Trump than meets the eye.
For laws can be used to ensure equality of opportunity and tolerance, or they can be used to maintain inequalities and the power of elites.
If the young European elites being trained there to occupy positions within the European Union’s institutions no longer believe in the EU’s future, something is really wrong.
It is often said, for good reason, that the widening income gap largely reflects technological change, which has drained many economies of blue- and even white-collar jobs, while channeling the fruits of improved productivity to high-skilled elites.
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