It's Not Really Possible to Oppose the Elite, Because It's All So Confusing

That's the gist of Anne Applebaum's Washington Post column . In a discussion of the upcoming election in the United Kingdom, she refers to the political stances of the Labor Party, the Conservative Party, and the Scottish National Party:

"Curiously, the three parties do have one thing in common: They all claim to be fighting for “the people” against an unnamed and ill-defined “elite.” They all offer their followers a new sort of identity: Voters can now define themselves as “Brexiteers,...

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Published on April 20, 2017 21:32
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