Recommended: Trump and the Crisis of the Meritocracy

Glenn Reynolds has a perception piece in today's USA Today: Trump and the crisis of meritocracy. It goes along with what I have been saying about the "establishment" going crazy, not so much because of Trump's proposed policies, many of which have been proposed by previous presidents and are in fact supported by at least half the nation, but because he threatens the ruling elite - the insider "meritocracy" that runs the country and fancies itself smarter than the rest of the country.

Trump's election certainly highlighted the growing divide in the nation between the cultures of the better educated urban coastal communities and the cultures of the more rural, working class remainder of the country, a divide that has been growing more obvious over the past decade or two, but hasn't (until now) gotten the attention of the insular political elite.  Reynolds points out that this sort of divide has brought down empires before, and may well bring down America if we don't find some resolution to it.