10-08-2018, 06:37 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-08-2018, 06:38 PM by Eric the Green.)
(10-02-2018, 07:40 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote: Note how Trump (acquisitor) was considered an anti-establishment candidate, while Clinton (intellectual) was an establishment candidate.
Which proves my point that being in power does not change whether you are liberal or conservative, a rebel or an enforcer of order and establishments. When Hillary and Obama were in power, the liberals were in power. Being the "establishment" only meant that they were in power. They may have trimmed their ideals, since having power does that to people when they run up against real obstacles. But they remained liberals, and a liberal is inherently anti-establishment. So, the anti-establishment was the establishment.
The establishment had been the anti-establishment, then. Since the 2016 election, under Trump the establishment is the establishment again. The conservatives are in power, and they are conserving their power.