'The people and elites are just soundbite terms that mean nothing'
Then why do the PPEs on BBC Newsnight discuss them so often? They would probably rather none of it had happened, they would probably rather it would all go away and that everything was back to how the Establishment liked it, when it was cushtie before the people's revolutions of 2016.
But it is not going away, it happened, we won, the elite lost, and so they have to discuss the people vs the elites on BBC Newsnight and write about it in the Guardian, through tears that soak their keyboards.
'Trump isn't an outsider, he's the ultimate insider'
Good point. That's probably why all the media teams and the BBC and all the world's political class said he was "fit" to be President. I never thought of that.
'Also over all of this you keep forgetting that actaully both "victories" were very slight'
Yes but that was always likely to be the case because you had the entire Establishment, all their spinners, all their Oxbridge teams, all their media teams, all their BBCs on the side of the Establishment with thier scare stories and tactics etc. Some pensioners were frightened about their pensions after what some of the Oxbridge spinners and politicians said might happen if we left the Brussels Bureaucrats Dream, the FU. But inspite of all their media slanting and all ther big shots and all their smearing Trump as a fascist and Farage as a fascist and Trump as a "white supremacist" etc, the people still beat all their teams and MBEs and OBES and all the rest that were rewarded for their service in Brexit and with Trump.
'and strangely enough the liberal metropolitan educated elite will be just fine'
No they won't. They are in panic. Have you glanced at the Guardian and the New Statesman. They are in panic. Their game is up. Political correctness has been defeated. They are worrying about what will happen to what they spin as "progressives" and worrying when, if ever, their Oxbridge spinners will get back into power.
Here is Robert Peston, Oxbridge, Establishment favourite, former BBC i.e. the dog's bollocks as far as the elites are concered
It was the Great Rejection – 2016 was when people in Britain and America chucked out the traditional way of running their respective countries. This year we'll learn whether we have started a global revolt
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But we should be in no doubt that there has been an earthquake and we are living through changes to our lives and livelihoods more important even than the momentous transfer of economic power from the state to the private sector by Thatcher and Reagan in the 1980s, and the consequent collapse of communism.
Now in some ways the timing of the revolt against the Establishment was odd, because those on lower incomes in Britain and America – angry that their earnings had gone nowhere for years – voted to throw the old guard out the window just when their living standards were beginning to improve. But there was a prevailing sense that the way we've been running the global economy for 30 years will only ever enrich a plutocracy and no one else, and enough was enough."
The progressives' game is up, the 172 are chewing their nails, the Guardian's finest are flailing at windmills that they promoted and are likely to be dismantled under Trump and what he calls the "climate change hoax". It is all over, the game's up, there was no bubbly at the Guardian's Office Party, most probably, just tears, moaning and wailing and Christmas greetings of "the game is up, comrade. The people won."