more people believe in secret conspiracies of elites running things behind the scenes at the time when those cabals probably have the least power they've ever had, it's kind of funny. like, if Wall St. did secretly run the country they'd have coup'd Trump by now.
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"this is what happens when rube populist conservatives seize power from elite conservatives, while believing wholesale the lies that were told to them to keep them in line"
elite conservatives are used to "public lies, private truths," yet the emergent rube conservative class has only heard the public lies and mistook them for truth, internalized it, and (I guess) says what they feel they have to in private company
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_Illusions_(book)
Save us, Woke Business Plot.
(Think it was the WTYP crew who mused that they are looking for the most Woke General to hire to do it and found it is still Smedley Butler.)
After all, they are *very* dumb people.