If Elite Politicians Are So Smart Why Is Nation In So Much Trouble?

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You see, it’s funny (or it certainly was in 1986, at least) to think that the liberal academic, who has never created any wealth on his own, fancies himself an expert at analyzing costs and building models for revenue growth. And yet the most fundamental aspects of any business – the product, the demand for said product, and how labor and production costs might impact bottom lines in a competitive marketplace – are “immaterial” in consideration of the more important tasks of building an elaborate “executive and administrative infrastructure” and a massive production plant. This is the liberal academia’s economic dysfunction, exemplified.
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The point is that, in many ways, Donald Trump’s present popularity can be explained by his having captured the same dynamic that made Dangerfield’s character popular among audiences in the 1980s, and likewise made the liberal academic the subject of jokes.
It’s true that Trump is far from common, but he has far more in common with the common man than any Ivy League politician in Washington. And Washington has been rife with the latter for decades. Since Reagan (of Eureka College), the executive office has been perpetually occupied by Ivy Leaguers. George H.W. Bush, Yale. Bill Clinton, Yale. George W. Bush, Yale. Barack Obama, Harvard. And the left’s preferred candidate, Hillary Clinton, in 2016? Yale.
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It all raises the question that Mark Steyn asks for us in After America: Get Ready for Armageddon while pondering our “credentialed-to-the-hilt” aristocracy: “If the smart guys [running things] are so smart, why are we broke?”
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Trump’s tapped into that energetic, dormant vein of conservatism in a way that no one else has in a long time.
He is a living testament to individualism, at once both a successful businessman and an obviously flawed human being. He has real-world experience, lending credence to his executive prowess.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/09/trump_the_everyman.html

September 21, 2015
Trump the Everyman?
By William Sullivan