"...this almost complete lack of confidence in our leadership class is a very serious matter indeed. And it does not seem at all likely that our new President, who was elected largely because he was outside that class,..." DK
Trump is hardly outside our leadership class, whatever you take that to mean here, and it can mean very different things.
He is outside the mainstream Republican Party. That is about all one can say on that.
We have really never had a leadership class here, except the gentlemen founders, what would have been called radical Whig lower gentry in England, and who quickly faded into the background of American politics going forward from 1820 or so.
Our politicians have no class, they are not leaders of any class worthy of the title 'leadership class', and they have proved it countless times.
They have in fact normally and usually been controlled by moneyed people like Trump, hardly a leadership class themselves, who stood in the background pulling the political strings.
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