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Britain ruthlessly created a subservient Iraqi state after WWI, backing Sunni elites to control the majority Shia population.
Yet the resentment toward the so-called elites into which such leaders have tapped can be seen on the left as well.
European economic elites perceive China and India very differently.
So-called elites who care about the preservation of democracy and the rule of law must come to grips with the anger, fear, and despair that have plagued voters since the financial crisis of 2008-2009.
While there were calls to redraw the colonial lines, neither departing Europeans nor local elites were interested in the thorough reshuffling that this would have required.
Moreover, given the vast inequalities of power and wealth in Latin America, and with a large part of the population bereft of land and education, the region has long been vulnerable to populist politics and rebellions, with leaders promising quick gains for the dispossessed by seizing property from the elites.
The elites have fought back, often brutally, to protect their property.
While European societies have developed social welfare states with universal access to public health and education services, elites throughout the Americas have tended to favor private-sector provision of health and education, in part reflecting white populations’ unwillingness to pay for social services for other ethnic and racial groups.
Moreover, Bolivia is not alone: the shift from military rule to democratic politics in Latin America during the past 20 years is gradually, fitfully, but consistently, broadening political empowerment beyond the traditional elites and dominant ethnic groups.
All have scored highly with voters filled with anger and resentment at polished urban elites.
It is time to tell Europe’s elites that they have only themselves to blame.
More broadly, citizens who struggle to make ends meet have become increasingly resentful and suspicious of those perceived to be privileged, moneyed elites – especially politicians.
But it is always far worse when stereotypes take over the consciousness of a society’s elites.
While both claim to speak for “the people” against “the elites,” the leftist AMLO was elected partly as a rebuke to Trump, whereas Bolsonaro embraces a Trump-like brand of right-wing nationalism, and enjoys the support of many Brazilian elites.
Unlike football, the Olympics were always closely associated with elites: amateur athletes recruited from universities, and so on.
It is unlikely that cajoling Western elites will mitigate the deep-seated uncertainty in the US and Europe about China’s rise.
This double-speak on the part of national political elites is perceived as such by voters, whose trust in both national and EU institutions is naturally declining.
In general, Latin American media tend to be captured by elites, with wealthy owners whose interests are represented in how the news is reported.
In late November, the parliament’s lower house, led by the majority African National Congress (ANC), overwhelmingly approved a new law – the “Protection of State Information Bill” – whose adoption would shield the country’s most-powerful political and business elites from public scrutiny.
Trump used populist language in his campaign, stoking up popular resentment against the educated urban elites, including capitalists on Wall Street.
This would require, of course, less cynical political elites who can transcend their petty ambitions and divisions for the sake of the country.
If France wants to capitalize on the positive emotions of Bastille Day, it needs much more responsible elites, ready to unite in the fight against unemployment and its causes (lack of competitiveness and labor-market rigidity) and consequences (the rise of populist, non-republican forces).
Ordinary Pakistanis hate the US because they believe that America supported years of oppression and military rule, while Pakistani elites are wary of anything that may undermine the position they have come to enjoy.
Two separate discussions about the rule of law are currently underway: an erudite, theoretical debate among elites at think tanks and universities, and a more general – and more consequential – popular “conversation” predicated on frustration with legal abuses.
This is no way to foster the kind of long-term stability that is needed to support peace and prosperity – objectives that everyone, not least the elites of Davos, have a strong interest in achieving.
Moreover, impugning populists’ intelligence and seriousness only plays into their hands: See how the arrogant, entrenched elites, they will counter, dismiss the common sense of the people.
In the populist imagination, both the very top and the very bottom of society are not really a part of it: they are directly or indirectly supported by outside powers (think of pro-European liberal elites in Central and Eastern Europe); more obviously, they are immigrants or minorities, like the Roma.
Typically, in the populist political imagination, elites disproportionately care for those who, like themselves, do not really belong.
Europe’s elites are regularly accused of lavishing benefits on ethnic minorities in the name of protecting their rights.
America’s Tea Party populists often imagine an unholy alliance of left-liberal, bi-coastal elites and the African-American underclass (an alliance that in their eyes is embodied in President Barack Obama).
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