{"id":11374,"date":"2018-08-30T13:06:48","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T20:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11374"},"modified":"2018-08-30T13:13:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T20:13:22","slug":"hanson-struggle-between-elites-and-masses-defines-us-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/hanson-struggle-between-elites-and-masses-defines-us-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanson: Struggle Between Elites And Masses Defines US Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clifton Parker \/\/ Hoover Institution<\/p>\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson says history offers lessons for today\u2019s technology-driven world, especially when it comes to elites, the masses, and the future of society.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the masses feel their will is not reflected in government policies or respected by the professional classes that manages society, then\u00a0historically\u00a0there can be a pushback in the form of a populist movement,\u201d said\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/profiles\/victor-davis-hanson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hanson<\/a>, the\u00a0Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hoover Institution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Conventional society typically views populist movements as \u201cgood\u201d or\u00a0\u201cbad,\u201d\u00a0Hanson said,\u00a0depending on whether they are progressive or traditionalist.\u00a0While the Left traditionally embraces a Bernie Sanders-style populism of high taxes and an expanded welfare state as the \u201cgood\u201d form, they typically show disdain for middle or lower class-driven Trumpian populism highly skeptical of an elite class that\u00a0in today\u2019s landscape\u00a0benefits almost exclusively\u00a0from\u00a0globalization\u2014a \u201cbad\u201d populism, in other words,\u00a0that appears to them too nationalist or parochial.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/news\/hanson-struggle-between-elites-and-masses-defines-us-policy\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clifton Parker \/\/ Hoover Institution Victor Davis Hanson says history offers lessons for today\u2019s technology-driven world, especially when it comes to elites, the masses, and the future of society. \u201cWhen the masses feel their will is not reflected in government policies or respected by the professional classes that manages society, then\u00a0historically\u00a0there can be a pushback [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2Xs","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11549,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/victor-davis-hanson-on-contemporary-american-society\/","url_meta":{"origin":11374,"position":0},"title":"Victor Davis Hanson On Contemporary American Society","author":"victorhanson","date":"December 3, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Hoover Institution Traditional values, whether manifested in public policy or contemporary culture, are besieged in today\u2019s America but can still be found in the right places, says\u00a0Victor Davis Hanson. 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