Published November 6, 2024
For those who read my Monday essay predicting Donald Trump’s epic win, the only thing less surprising than his triumph was the media’s surprise that it happened.
With a few exceptions, our self-appointed national elites remain utterly clueless about the nature of the nation they purport to lead.
They think Americans are happy with an economy that downgrades working with your hands and overcompensates working with your mind.
They think Americans want more dissolution of traditional norms, and the faster those are destroyed, the better.
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Henry Olsen, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, studies and provides commentary on American politics. His work focuses on how America’s political order is being upended by populist challenges, from the left and the right. He also studies populism’s impact in other democracies in the developed world.
