The War Against Managerial Rule
July 8, 2025
Progressive thinkers and politicians now routinely warn us of threats to “our democracy” purportedly emanating from the populist Right. But they protest too much. It is the progressives themselves who swell the ranks of the managerial elite that governs us. And as N.S. Lyons writes, “the authorities that run our societies seem to find the practice, values, and very spirit of democracy to be increasingly intolerable.”
But the consensual form of government that is characteristic of the West ultimately depends on the wisdom of a demos that is awake enough to smell a rat — to know, at least, where they don’t want to go, even if they can’t quite articulate where they do. The American people have smelled the rat, but the moment they now enjoy is perishable. The elite Left has been beaten back, but it has not gone away. We should reflect on the Left’s stunning successes over a stunningly short period of time, and on what they portend.
Each of these successes demonstrates that, in the eyes of the Left, democracy is doing what the elite consensus demands. In recent years much has been revealed about the soul of the American people, and it will be used against them at the first opportunity. The censorship-industrial complex is now simply lying in wait. Given the stunning hubris and undeniable successes of our elites, they willalmost certainly attempt a resurgence. It will come in short order, if it’s not happening already. And for this we must be prepared.
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