Voters Give a Big Thumbs Down to America’s Leaders

This post is about how the last election can be understood as a rebuke to America’s leaders in the Democratic Party.  As David Brooks put it in the headline of his first column after the election:  Voters to Elites:  Can You See Me Now?

• I want to explore this issue at two levels, arguing that:
  1. This populist revolt revealed that we have a Versailles problem, where institutional leaders have become cut off from the ordinary citizen
  2. The root of the problem is the way we select our leaders – via a university-based meritocracy
• The result is that the country is increasingly divided according to who went to college and who didn’t

I wrote this as a slide presentation, and here’s a link to it.  See what you think.