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384 | Peter Turchin: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path to Political Disintegration
The Realignment
The Counter-Elite
The counter-elite is a group of people who feel disrespected by the elites, says Julian Zelizer. They can be channeled through political entrepreneurs like Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson, he adds. The feeling that the social system is unjust spreads amongst them, writes Zelizer. This provides much more immediate motivation for trying to overthrow this unjust regime than an explicit calculation "I want to get into a power position"
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