THE 2016 ELECTION MARKS THE DEATH OF ELITISM: I doubt it. America’s elite political class is taking a licking but it remains powerful. Salena Zito, however, thinks the 2016 pounding will prove fatal. Key argument: “…the power of elites to persuade us has evaporated.”

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…the governing class has failed us miserably, from wars in the Middle East that never end, to a healthcare bill that erodes our income to the politicization of the once trustworthy institutions of the Pentagon, NASA and the Justice Department.To them, the system is genuinely rigged, and the divide between the Ivy League educated and the state or trade school educated, between the haves and the have-nots, has become so deep that there is no bridge long or sturdy enough to connect them.