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YouTube tonight American politics since the emergence of Donald Trump have been driven by at least two dominant political sentiments.

One is an intense and rapidly growing distrust for and contempt of leading institutions of power and authority.

Large corporations, almost every branch of government, the corporate media, the establishment

wings of all parties, and now even the health policy and scientific establishment.

There's barely an institution of authority left unscathed.

The loss of trust and faith in key sectors of authority has historically

been monumentally consequential for any society where it emerges,

but it also creates a large opening for politicians and political parties to ascend to power

by convincingly vowing to destroy the hated establishment.

To me, that more than anything else explains the success of Trump's highly improbable

victories in the 2016 GOP primary and then the general election.

And arguably, and to a lesser extent, also explains the equally unlikely 2008 ascension

to the Oval Office of Barack Obama who also postured as an

anti-establishment figure. The second major factor is a byproduct of the first which

is the rise of populist politics.

Now that is a term populism that is often used and throwing around but rarely defined.

But a fundamental precept for certain is the belief that establishment ideology and establishment

orthodoxy are directly harmful to the economic and cultural lives of ordinary citizens. and also that economic or establishment

orthodoxy is designed to benefit only those elites who control those

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