IF YOU'RE SO SMART, WHY AREN'T YOU RICH?

First, the background.

Thus, the Fatal Conceit of the latter-day Platonists (the self-styled progressives) is in creating that cadre of Wise Experts who are going to protect the masses from their own foolishness. And if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. I like the idea of limiting and enumerating the powers of government, something that neither major party shows much interest in. That way, there aren't as many things the Wise Experts can screw up, and the opportunities for those in the masses who give in to their sheer foolishness to live at the expense of everyone else are fewer.

I wrote that in October, 2016, more in anticipation of a continuation of Hope and Change and hectoring Platonists than not.  Perhaps, though, there is the dawning of awareness among the Platonists.

Donald Trump is only the beginning of a populist retrenchment, one that faces great adversity from a well-entrenched globalist political class.

And that, rather than anything to do with Trump’s presidency, is what has gone horribly wrong in America. The broader ruling class in the country, the wealthy and politically connected, the best educated and most widely heard, have abandoned their countrymen. The very concept of citizenship, to say nothing of placing one’s fellow citizens above those whose loyalties are to other states and cultures, has fallen out of vogue among America’s most privileged.

Strong stuff. And yet, "This, and not Donald Trump’s temperament or tweets, is the real menace to the country: an elite that has lost the trust of the people because the people knows what the elite will not admit—namely, that it despises them" may not be wholly wrong.  You'd think that ten, or twenty, or fifty, or close to a century, of failures by the Platonists might eventually register with the electorates, all the hectoring and deplorable-shaming notwithstanding.