Victor Davis Hanson Cutting to the chase here: . . . "Three, unelected bureaucrats multiplied and vastly increased their power over private citizens. The targeted middle classes lacked the resources to fight back against the royal armies of tenured regulators, planners, auditors, inspectors, and adjusters who could not be fired and were never accountable.
"Four, the new global media reached billions and indoctrinated rather than reported.
"Five, academia, rather than focusing on education, became politicized as a shrill agent of cultural transformation — while charging more for less learning.
"Six, utopian social planning increased housing, energy, and transportation costs.
"One common gripe framed all these diverse issues: The wealthy had the means and influence not to be bothered by higher taxes and fees, or to avoid them altogether. Not so much the middle classes, who lacked the clout of the virtue-signaling rich and the romance of the distant poor.
"In other words, elites never suffered the firsthand consequences of their own ideological fiats." . . .
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