FOURTH TURNING ALERT. Remember "gravitas?" That was the Chattering Classes' prerequisite for high political office circa 2000. Insta Pundit suggests it's gang aft agley.

I think we're seeing a general meltdown in support for the entire governing class as the result of a perception (which is largely true) that it lacks the seriousness and self-restraint necessary to run a major nation.

Or is it a passing from the scene of the Lewis Lapham and Ken Galbraith instructed and New Frontier inspired technocrats and their acolytes from the coming of age of the Baby Boom? Hippies showing seriousness and self-restraint? It is to laugh ...