The US is falling prey to what has become obscenely common in democracies of late : the "plebs" going after the elites, for reasons valid or otherwise. This of

The US is falling prey to what has become obscenely common in democracies of late : the "plebs" going after the elites, for reasons valid or otherwise. This often means that they'll often go after academics and artists who stick out like a sour thumb, instead of financial/industrial/political elites who they more likely have a grouse with. This results in very bad negative effects in the long-term, which these actors themselves don't have much foresight for. Reminds me of Pol Pot killing off anyone who knew a foreign language, or Mao luring out Intellectual elites and them wiping them off in the cultural revolution or the destruction of India/Africa's British-era universities with toxic caste/race-politics (or US's toxic woke-politics, and now its continued destruction by its mirror-image in populist fascism). Really makes you question many of the tenets we take for granted in "democracies".